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Eel single work   poetry   "He lies asleep in his lair, asleep underwater, only his throat showing,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Eel
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from a Djambidj song series
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    y separately published work icon The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems R. M. W. Dixon (editor), Martin Duwell (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z555806 1990 anthology poetry criticism biography 'This anthology of Aboriginal song poems is the first collection of its kind, bringing together examples of an ancient and continuing tradition...These songs appear in a diversity of styles. The selections herein are from four distinct aboriginal language groups of North Queensland, Central Australia, Arnhemland aand the Simpson Desert. Each song appears in its original language with the translation opposite. The cultural context is provided by brief introductions and detailed commentaries through out the anthology.' (Source: Publisher's blurb) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 pg. 88-89
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