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Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia, published in 1978, is the second collection of poems by Noongar playwright and poet Jack Davis, often referred to as the 20th Century's Aboriginal Poet Laureate.
Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic.His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.
2016: Shortlisted, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry [2] 2015: Kate Challis RAKA Award for Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the Land (2012) [2] 2014: Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for Indigenous writing [2] 2012: Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, for Connection Requital. [18] [19]
Winner of the Indigenous Voices Award, English Poetry for This Wound Is a World (2018) [38] Winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, This Wound Is a World [39] CBC's best book of 2017, Canadian poetry category, This Wound Is a World [40] Winner, P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, "Love Is a Moontime Teaching", (2017) [41] Rhodes Scholar (2016)
Inspired by Rita Joe's poem, "I Lost My Talk," and her challenge for Indigenous youth to "find their voices, share their stories, and celebrate their talents," Canada's National Arts Centre launched the Rita Joe National Song project. The project called on youth from five First Nations' communities in Canada to write, record, and create a music ...
In 2010, she won the Orlando Poetry Prize for her poem "The Impermanence of Human Sculptures." [ 7 ] In 2013 she appeared on TEDx ABQ with a talk called "Igniting Healing." In 2015, Winder co-curated "Sing Our River Red," a traveling exhibit of single earrings to raise awareness of Canada's epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women . [ 8 ]
Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen person (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.He is a poet, playwright, and archaeologist. Dandurand received a Diploma in Performing Arts from Algonquin College and studied Theatre and Direction at the University of Ottawa.
[2] [3] John-Kehewin began writing poetry at age six, as a way to express he feelings. [4] She became aware of the lack of literature centering First Nations voices at a young age, after seeing the lack of representation in the books in her reserve's library. [3] At age 19, John-Kehewin became pregnant. She left her reserve and traveled to ...