Dalwurra: The Black Bittern: A Poem Cycle.

Language: English

Published by Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, Perth, Nedlands, 1988

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Paperback large trade, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), card covers, full-page black & white drawings, spine little creased & bumped, autograph (author's written name & date on flyleaf). 77 pp. In his second collection of poems, based on the Aboriginal form of the manikay or song cycle, Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo Narogin) adapts the story of Dalwurra, the black bittern (a small bird sacred to Aborigines), to his own experience. He tells the story of his journey that leads from Perth in Western Australia to Singapore, then to India and finally to Scotland and England, to the Commonwealth Writer's Conference in Edinburgh - and then to London at the time of the Brixton riots. The return to Western Australia is not only a return to his own country but to full possession of his Aboriginal inheritance, a return which this poem celebrates. (1 of 2 available copies. Autographed copy.).

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Title
Dalwurra: The Black Bittern: A Poem Cycle.
Author
Johnson, Colin; Narogin, Mudrooroo; Brady, Veronica (editor); Miller, Susan (associate editor); Hearn, Karin (illustrator).
Publisher
Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, Perth, Nedlands
Publication year
1988
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