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They Took Us single work   poetry   "As a child I left this place"
Alternative title: Yabu Irringa
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 They Took Us
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First line of verse: "Alanga bulnungurna ngidabarda irringa"
Notes:
With the title: Yabu Irringa.
Notes:
Text in Wambaya language.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon This Country Anytime Anywhere : An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing from the Northern Territory Northern Territory Writers' Centre , Karl Dank (editor), Alice Springs : IAD Press Northern Territory Writers' Centre , 2010 Z1729606 2010 anthology poetry autobiography

    'This country anytime anywhere features writing from new and emerging Aboriginal writers from the length of the Northern Territory. This contemporary collection features eight Australian Aboriginal languages - some of them severely endangered - and is unsurpassed in its comprehensive representation of writers, subject matters and styles that share the powerful cultural, artistic, political and personal interests of these writers in the 21st century. Ranging from teenagers to elders, the writers come from diverse rural, urban and remote backgrounds...' (Source back cover)

         Alice Springs : IAD Press Northern Territory Writers' Centre , 2010     pg. 51
Language: English
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon This Country Anytime Anywhere : An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing from the Northern Territory Northern Territory Writers' Centre , Karl Dank (editor), Alice Springs : IAD Press Northern Territory Writers' Centre , 2010 Z1729606 2010 anthology poetry autobiography

    'This country anytime anywhere features writing from new and emerging Aboriginal writers from the length of the Northern Territory. This contemporary collection features eight Australian Aboriginal languages - some of them severely endangered - and is unsurpassed in its comprehensive representation of writers, subject matters and styles that share the powerful cultural, artistic, political and personal interests of these writers in the 21st century. Ranging from teenagers to elders, the writers come from diverse rural, urban and remote backgrounds...' (Source back cover)

         Alice Springs : IAD Press Northern Territory Writers' Centre , 2010     pg. 50
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