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y separately published work icon We Are Going : Poems selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 We Are Going : Poems
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      Brisbane, Queensland,: ca. 1962-1964 .
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • A copy of this manuscript is available at the National Library of Australia Special Collections Reading Room.

      • Manuscript note NLA catalogue:

        “Of the 31 poems here printed, 30 were first published in Walker’s first book “We Are Going: Poems” (Brisbane: Jacaranda, 1964). Two poems have slightly different titles (6 & 23) and all are arranged in a different order. We have not been able to find a published record of the extra poem “Peace” (No. 2). The theme of this poem is women against nuclear war, “Women unite; / Unite or pay the price / Of children scorched and scarred / With sterling sightless eyes. / Imbeciles, / Through nuclear war;” whereas the other poems relate to Aboriginal affairs. This leads us to suppose this is a prepublication copy of her manuscript poems submitted to Brisbane publisher Jacaranda Press. After a recommendation from Jacaranda’s poetry reader, Judith Wright, the collection was published in 1964 as “We Are Going: Poems.” The work was an immediate commercial success, selling more than ten thousand copies and making Walker the best-selling Australian poet since C. J. Dennis."–Catalogue from Read's Rare Book Shop, list 251, July 2014

    • Brisbane, Queensland,: Jacaranda Press , 1964 .
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      Extent: 43p.
      Reprinted: 1965
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by James Devaney.
      • Reprinted May, June, July (twice), October 1964
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Citadel Press ,       1965 .
      Extent: 43p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
Language: Italian , English
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    y separately published work icon Oodgeroo Noonuccal con We Are Going Francesca Di Blasio , Margherita Zanoletti , Trento : Università degli studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia , 2013 8187749 2013 selected work criticism poetry

    Il presente volume rappresenta il primo contributo critico italiano interamente incentrato sulla figura della grande poetessa australiana Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Libro ibrido e strutturalmente composito, esso ospita la prima versione italiana integrale della raccolta poetica d’esordio di Oodgeroo (all’epoca Kath Walker), We Are Going (1964).

    The volume aims to introduce to the Italian audience the seminal work of the Indigenous poet Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, and contains the first Italian translation of her first collection of poetry, We Are Going (1964). [from 'Encountering Australia: Transcultural Conversations' conference program, European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA), 24-26 September 2014, Monash Prato Centre, Prato Italy]

         Trento : Università degli studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia , 2013     pg. 181-247
    Note:

    In English with parallel Italian translation.

    Dedication: Dedicated with pride to all the members of the Federal Council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement, whose motto is : 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.' (Article 1. Declaration of Human Rights)

    Dedica: Dedicato con orgoglio

    A tutti i membri del Consiglio Federale per la Promozione degli Aborigeni e degli Abitanti dello Stretto di Torres, il cui motto è: "Tutti gli esseri umani sono liberi per nascita e uguali in dignità e diritti...e dovrebbero agire gli uni verso gli altri in spirito di fratellanza." (Articolo I, Dichiarazione dei Diritti Umani) [Translated by Francesca Di Blasio]
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