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White Tendency single work   poetry   "This old cruelty said to we's little black nigger are painted blackie"
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 White Tendency
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Notes

  • Author's note: 29/11/82

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Kudjela Lionel Fogarty , Spring Hill : Planet Press , 1983 Z990655 1983 selected work poetry

    'Lionel has journeyed through the past to recreate an unwritten history of his ancestral background in the Charters Towers and Beaudesert areas; the experience of growing up in Cherbourg; and an expression of the frustrations of "urban survival" and day-to-day living.'

    Because the stories are based on people, places and events that are part of the community, they link the past to the present and are given to you, in respect of humanity and nature...'(Source: Front cover verso, Kudjela 1983)

    Spring Hill : Planet Press , 1983
    pg. 46-47
    Note: with first line: This old cruelty said to we's
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems : Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera Lionel Fogarty , South Melbourne : Hyland House , 1995 Z203584 1995 selected work poetry

    '... poems are written with directness, honesty and passion. In this book Lionel has combined a selection of poems from previous publications together with several new works.' Source: http://www.kpress.com.au/ (Sighted: 30/06/2009).

    South Melbourne : Hyland House , 1995
    pg. 92-93
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