Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big …
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Smoke Encrypted Whispers
These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway…
Author:
Samuel Wagan Watson
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2004
Samuel Wagan Watson
Samuel Wagan Watson is an award-winning Indigenous poet and professional raconteur. Born in Brisbane in 1972, he is of Munanjali, Birri Gubba, German and Irish descent. Samuel’s first collection of poems won the 1998 David Unaipon Award. His fourth…
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Inside My Mother
In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Published year:
2015
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Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960, to an Anglo-Australian father and a Thai mother. He spent some of his childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, before coming to Australia in 1968. Adam was Associate …
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The ABC Book of Australian Poetry
Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and …
Year:
Secondary, Year 7
Author:
Libby Hathorn
Illustrator:
Cassandra Allen
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published year:
2010
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Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the …
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Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her …
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Omar Musa
Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia.
He has released three poetry books (including Parang and Millefiori), four hip-hop records, written an acclaimed one-man play (Since Ali Died), and received a standing…
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Tony Birch
Tony Birch is the author of three novels: The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Prize; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary …
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