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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 For My Mother
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Language: English , Greek
Notes:
Parallel text - Greek and English
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Re-Telling the Tale : Poetry and Prose by Greek-Australian Women Writers Helen Nickas (editor), Konstandina Dounis (editor), Bundoora : Owl Publishing , 1994 Z497027 1994 anthology short story drama extract poetry

    "In this book, more than forty Greek-Australian women have composed, through poems and stories, a migrant tale of hardship, survival and joy: a truly Australian tale, a truly Greek tale, as both countries have given and taken from each other through migration. Each writer contributes, in her own voice and style, a part of this story which begins with the first generation of migrants, who had to endure life away from ‘home’, and is followed by those of their offspring who live in, or between, two worlds and experience the conflicts, as well as the joys, of a dual existence. Contributors range from the unpublished, to those previously published only in Greek, to others who are established names in 'Australian' literature. They are all here side by side, telling their part of the story. The editors of this book have provided a Greek-Australian story, fittingly, in bilingual form."

    Taken from: http://owlpublishing.com.au/re-telling-the-tale.html

         Bundoora : Owl Publishing , 1994     pg. 324-327
Language: Greek
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Antipodes, 1974 - 2004 no. 50 2004 Z1513280 2004 periodical issue The issue celebrates the periodical's thirtieth year since its birth: 30 yrs of continuous publication 2004 pg. 64
First line of verse: "They say I look like you"
Language: English
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    y separately published work icon Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader Sonia Mycak (editor), Amit Sarwal (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2010 Z1780622 2010 anthology criticism Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Despite the different approaches they take, the essays address a number of questions which are important for understanding Australian multicultural society and Australia's national literary culture.
    How does multiculturalism intersect with different genres and generic conventions? How is cultural diversity expressed and enacted within life writing, women's writing, experimental writing, children's literature, poetry, prose and film? What does it mean to be a 'multicultural writer' in Australia today? What is a 'multicultural text'?
    Presenting the work of critics and scholars from both Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives as it explores what it means for a writer or a reader to be 'Australian' and a text to be 'Australian made' (Publisher website).         Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2010     pg. 93-94
Language: English
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southern Sun, Aegean Light : Poetry of Second-Generation Greek-Australians Nick Trakakis (editor), North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2011 Z1855714 2011 anthology poetry 'Southern Sun, Aegean Light represents the very first attempt to collect in a single volume the poetry of second-generation Greek-Australians. Bringing together the distinct and diverse work of over thirty poets, from the well established to the newly published, this collection showcases the poetic contribution of a generation that has arisen out of the shadows of its migrant past as it establishes a voice and sensibility of its own. The poetry presented here challenges stereotypes of what it is to be Greek-Australian, while also grappling with a variety of issues beyond identity and belonging, including death and dying, and memory and loss. These are poems to be savoured by earlier and later generations of Greek-Australians, as well as the wider community in Australia.' (Publisher's blurb)
         North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2011     pg. 111
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