Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925360851
Year: 2018
Publisher: Magabala Books


Description:


WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award
SHORTLISTED – 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry)
SHORTLISTED – 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Indigenous Writing Prize)
SHORTLISTED – 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
LONGLISTED – 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal

A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.

Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas – identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know.

'Alison Whittaker's second book,Blakworkis a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection,Lemons in the Chicken Wire...Whittaker has drawn on the strength of past generations to become a strongblakwoman in contemporary Australia, and readers are gifted her insights into growing upblak.With a unique style of writing, she bravely unpacks themes such as colonisation and Aboriginal rights in Australia.'—KarenWyld, Books+Publishing

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