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Much of Knott's advocacy began with her work against the Site C dam and taking part in the Treaty 8 Caravan. In 2014, the federal and provincial governments approved the construction of the B.C. Hydro Site C hydroelectric dam project, upsetting the people of the Prophet River and West Moberly First Nations, as it seems the dam will threaten three of the largest rivers in the Peace River ...
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)
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.
Diane Marie Burns (January 11, 1956 – December 22, 2006) was an Anishinaabe (Lac Court Oreilles) and Chemehuevi artist, known for her poetry and performance art highlighting Native American experience.
In 1988 he adopted the Indigenous name Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal, [31] kabul meaning carpet snake, [4] [29] and in the same year co-authored The Rainbow Serpent with his mother, for Expo 88. [32] In March 1990 he directed the world premiere of Munjong, by Richard Walley, at the Victorian Arts Centre. [34] He died on 20 February 1991. [32] [35]
The bush ballad, bush song, or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that depicts the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. The typical bush ballad employs a straightforward rhyme structure to narrate a story, often one of action and adventure, and uses language that is colourful, colloquial, and idiomatically Australian.
From the late 1950s onwards, Subhash's poetry evolved into something more personal and introspective. The lyricism of Phul phutuk na phutuk, aaj Boshonto, one of his most famous poems, was a result of this period. Later in the 1970s, Subhash's poetry took a turn toward the narrative and the allegorical. But he never lost his technical facility ...