Lee Cataldi

These poems were written over a period of about 20 years. Some relate to living in an Aboriginal community in Western Australia with the last speakers of the Ngardi language. The India poems are the result of spending 3 months meeting poets in India on an Asialink grant. The other poems relate to growing old, the great leveller. Mourning is...

Representing the collaborative efforts of Ngardi Elders and linguists over more than 40 years, this is the most comprehensive documentation ever of Ngardi, a language of the northern Western Desert of Western Australia. Ngardi is the language of the western regions of the Tanami Desert and the north-central region of the Great Sandy Desert. Ngardi country is known locally as...