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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Defining Colour
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    y separately published work icon Spirit Song : A Collection of Aboriginal Poetry Lorraine Mafi-Williams , Norwood : Omnibus Books , 1993 Z430576 1993 anthology poetry

    'In this collection of contemporary poems for children, thirty-five Aboriginal poets write about what it means to be Aboriginal today. Many of the poems reflect the anger, despair and determination of a people dispossessed of their land and denied justice. Some poets recall the spirituality and culture of their ancestors. Still others look with hope to the future...' (Source: Back cover)

         Norwood : Omnibus Books , 1993     pg. 49
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    y separately published work icon All Ginibi's Mob : Our Voices Collected Ruby Langford Ginibi (editor), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press Riawunna, Centre for Aboriginal Education , 2011 Z1807297 2011 anthology poetry prose 'In early 1990, I thought I'd try and get an anthology of poems going and asked some of my friends and family to contribute, and what you read in this anthology is a culmination of all the gathering I did. There's 134 poems, 23 contributors, males and females, so here it is. Read and enjoy our voices. There are poems of love, hate, anger, dreaming, land, culture, animals, philosophy, respect, missionaries, colonisers, survival, politics, caring, life, death and hope.' (Source: back cover) Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press Riawunna, Centre for Aboriginal Education , 2011 pg. 117
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