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Holocaust Island
First Nations Classics
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Holocaust Island
This collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.
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Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice—from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights—and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.
Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon's poems address contemporary and controversial issues—from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers—and are as relevant today as when his book was first published. This dynamic collection is threaded with poems of spirited humour and sharp satire. Dixon's powerful voice rings out loud and clear.
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ISBN: 9780702266034
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 May 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Edition: 2nd ed.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 94g
Pages: 108
About the Author
Graeme Dixon (1955-2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years. His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989.
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