CONTENTSForeword by Thomas Keneally xxviiiAbout the Editors xxxiiList of Abbreviations xxxivAcknowledgements xxxv

General Introduction Nicholas Jose 1Aboriginal Literature Anita Heiss and Peter Minter 7Literature to 1900 Elizabeth Webby 15Literature 1900–1950 Nicole Moore 23Fiction and Drama from 1950 Kerryn Goldsworthy 31Poetry and Non-fi ction from 1950 David McCooey 41

GEORGE WORGAN (1757–1838) 51From Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon 51

WATKIN TENCH (1758–1833) 56From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 56

BENNELONG (c. 1764–1813) 60Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney’s Steward 60

ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (1766–1850) 61Letter to Brigid Kingdon 61

MATTHEW FLINDERS (1774–1814) 63From A Voyage to Terra Australis 64

BARRON FIELD (1786–1846) 65The Kangaroo 66

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ANONYMOUS 68The Native’s Lament 68

HENRY SAVERY (1791–1842) 69From The Hermit in Van Diemen’s Land 69

ANONYMOUS 73A Swan River Eclogue 73

ANONYMOUS 75Jim Jones at Botany Bay 75

CHARLES STURT (1795–1869) 76From Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia 76

ELIZA DUNLOP (1796–1880) 80The Aboriginal Mother (from Myall’s Creek) 81

FRANK THE POET (c. 1810–c. 1861) 83A Convict’s Tour to Hell 83

ANONYMOUS 89Moreton Bay 89

ELIZA BROWN (1810–1896) 91Letter to Her Father 91

LOUISA ANNE MEREDITH (1812–1895) 94From Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 94

CHARLES HARPUR (1813–1868) 99The Beautiful Squatter 100A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest 101A Confession 102The Consummation 102

MARY ANN ARTHUR (c. 1819–1871) 103Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen’s Land 103

WALTER GEORGE ARTHUR (c. 1820–1861) 103Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen’s Land 104

ELLEN CLACY (c. 1820–?) 105From A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852–1853 106

CAROLINE CARLETON (c. 1820–1874) 109The Song of Australia 109

THOMAS BRUNE (c. 1823–1841) 110The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle 110The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle 111Weekly Chronicle 112

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WILLIAM BARAK (c. 1824–1903) 112Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines 113

CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE (1825–1910) 113From Clara Morison 114

ROLF BOLDREWOOD (1826–1915) 117From Robbery Under Arms 117

D.H. DENIEHY (1828–1865) 121Speech on Mr Wentworth’s Constitutional Bill 122

ANONYMOUS 126The Eumerella Shore 126

ANONYMOUS 127The Wild Colonial Boy 127

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON (1833–1870) 128The Sick Stockrider 128

WAIF WANDER (c. 1833–c. 1910) 131The Spider and the Fly 131

LOUISA ATKINSON (1834–1872) 138Cabbage-Tree Hollow, and the Valley of the Grose 138

GEORGE CHANSON (1835–1898) 142Stringy Bark and Green Hide 142

ERNEST GILES (1835–1897) 143From Australia Twice Traversed 143

HENRY KENDALL (1839–1882) 147Bell-birds 148The Late Mr A.L. Gordon: In Memoriam 149

W.H.L. RANKEN (1839–1902) 151From The Dominion of Australia 151

A.J. BOYD (1842–1928) 153The Shepherd 154

JOSEPH FURPHY (1843–1912) 155From Such is Life 155

ADA CAMBRIDGE (1844–1926) 163Seeking 164An Answer 164The Wind of Destiny 164

MARCUS CLARKE (1846–1881) 176From His Natural Life 177

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Nasturtium Villas 184Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 188

MARY HANNAY FOOTT (1846–1918) 192Where the Pelican Builds 192

LOUISA LAWSON (1848–1920) 193That Nonsensical Idea 193

TASMA (1848–1897) 196Monsieur Caloche 197

BESSIE CAMERON (c. 1851–1895) 212Letter to the Editor 212

E.J. BANFIELD (1852–1923) 213From The Confessions of a Beachcomber 213

TAAM SZE PUI (c. 1853–1926) 217From My Life and Work 218

AUDREY TENNYSON (1854–1916) 219Letter to Her Mother 220

NED KELLY (1855–1880) 224The Jerilderie Letter 224

PRICE WARUNG (1855–1911) 228How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast 228

BARBARA BAYNTON (1857–1929) 235The Chosen Vessel 235

VICTOR DALEY (c. 1858–1905) 240Correggio Jones 241

KITTY BRANGY (c. 1859–1918) 243Letter to Edith Brangy 243

ANNIE RICH (c. 1859–1937) 244Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the

Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines 244

WILLIAM COOPER (c. 1861–1941) 245Petition to the King 245

BANJO PATERSON (1864–1941) 246The Man from Snowy River 246Waltzing Matilda 249Mulga Bill’s Bicycle 250

A.G. STEPHENS (1865–1933) 251A Poet’s Mother 252

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MARY GILMORE (1865–1962) 255Eve-Song 256The Measure 257Old Botany Bay 257Australia 258Fourteen Men 259

BARCROFT BOAKE (1866–1892) 260Where the Dead Men Lie 260

BERNARD O’DOWD (1866–1953) 262Australia 262

HENRY LAWSON (1867–1922) 262Faces in the Street 263The Drover’s Wife 266The Union Buries Its Dead 272In a Dry Season 276

STEELE RUDD (1868–1935) 278From On Our Selection! 279

MARY E. FULLERTON (1868–1946) 282War Time 282

ETHEL TURNER (1870–1958) 283From Seven Little Australians 283

CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN (1870–1932) 286‘She is the night: all horror is of her’ 287‘Fire in the heavens, and fi re along the hills’ 288‘O desolate eves along the way, how oft’ 289‘The land I came thro’ last was dumb with night’ 289

HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON (1870–1946) 290From The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 291

LOUIS STONE (1871–1935) 298From Jonah 298

JOHN LE GAY BRERETON (1871–1933) 304ANZAC 304Transports 305

MAGGIE MOBOURNE (c. 1872–1917) 305 Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the

Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines 306

CONSTANCE CAMPBELL PETRIE (1872–1926) 307From Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland 307

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JOHN SHAW NEILSON (1872–1942) 311Honeythirst 312The Girl With the Black Hair 312The Orange Tree 313The Poor, Poor Country 314

DAVID UNAIPON (1872–1967) 315 Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs:

Where Did They Come From? 316Hungarrda 317Narrinyeri Saying 320The Voice of the Great Spirit 320

ANNA MORGAN (1874–1935) 322Under the Black Flag 322

FRED BIGGS (c. 1875–1961) and ROLAND ROBINSON (1912–1992) 323

The Star-Tribes 323

C.J. DENNIS (1876–1938) 324From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke 324

LOUIS ESSON (1878–1943) 328From The Time is Not Yet Ripe 328

P.J. HARTIGAN (1878–1952) 339Said Hanrahan 339

MILES FRANKLIN (1879–1954) 342From My Brilliant Career 343Letter to Katharine Susannah Prichard 351

C.E.W. BEAN (1879–1968) 354From On the Wool Track 354

NORMAN LINDSAY (1879–1969) 360From The Magic Pudding 360

FREDERIC MANNING (1882–1935) 365From The Middle Parts of Fortune 365

WILLIAM FERGUSON (1882–1950) and JOHN PATTEN (1905–1957) 370

Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights! 370

ANNA WICKHAM (1883–1947) 377The Sick Assailant 378

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KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD (1883–1969) 378Marlene 379Letter to Miles Franklin 386

DOROTHEA MACKELLAR (1885–1968) 388My Country 388

NETTIE PALMER (1885–1964) 390From Fourteen Years 390

LESBIA HARFORD (1891–1927) 397In the Public Library 397‘My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies’ 399Machinist’s Song 399Grotesque 399

MARTIN BOYD (1893–1972) 400From Outbreak of Love 400

JEAN DEVANNY (1894–1962) 403From Sugar Heaven 403

ROBERT MENZIES (1894–1978) 407The Forgotten People 407

A.B. FACEY (1894–1982) 411From A Fortunate Life 411

MARJORIE BARNARD (1897–1987) 415Australian Literature 415The Persimmon Tree 418

M. BARNARD ELDERSHAW (1897–1987 Barnard; 1897–1956 Eldershaw) 421

From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 421

NORMAN HARRIS (c. 1898–1968) 432Letter to Jim Bassett 432

RICKETTY KATE (1898–1971) 435Via the Bridge 435

A.A. PHILLIPS (1900–1985) 437The Cultural Cringe 437

KENNETH SLESSOR (1901–1971) 441Up in Mabel’s Room 441Backless Betty from Bondi 442Five Bells 443Last Trams 446South Country 447Beach Burial 448

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XAVIER HERBERT (1901–1984) 449From Capricornia 449

ELEANOR DARK (1901–1985) 463From The Timeless Land 464

PEARL GIBBS (1901–1983) 470Radio Broadcast 470

J.M. HARCOURT (1902–1971) 473From Upsurge 473

CHRISTINA STEAD (1902–1983) 475From For Love Alone 476Uncle Morgan at the Nats 485

ALAN MARSHALL (1902–1984) 491The Grey Kangaroo 492

DYMPHNA CUSACK (1902–1981) and FLORENCE JAMES (1902–1993) 495

From Come in Spinner 496

ROBERT D. FITZGERALD (1902–1987) 500The Wind at Your Door 501

LENNIE LOWER (1903–1947) 505Where the Cooler Bars Grow 505

EVE LANGLEY (1904–1974) 508Native-born 508From The Pea Pickers 509

JOHN MORRISON (1904–1998) 515The Nightshift 515

DOUG NICHOLLS (1906–1988) 521Letter to the Editor 521

A.D. HOPE (1907–2000) 522Australia 523Ascent into Hell 524The Death of the Bird 526Crossing the Frontier 527Inscription for a War 529The Mayan Books 529

JUDAH WATEN (1911–1985) 529From Alien Son 530

HAL PORTER (1911–1984) 532From The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony 532

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KYLIE TENNANT (1912–1988) 541From Ride on Stranger 541

PATRICK WHITE (1912–1990) 545From Voss 546The Prodigal Son 557Miss Slattery and Her Demon Lover 560

GEORGE JOHNSTON (1912–1970) 574From My Brother Jack 574

JOE TIMBERY (1912–1978) 577The Boomerang Racket 577

DOUGLAS STEWART (1913–1985) 579The Green Centipede 579The Fierce Country 580Marree 580Afghan 581Place Names 581Sombrero 582

BILL NEIDJIE (c. 1913–2002) 583Ahh … Bush-Honey There! 583

DONALD FRIEND (1914–1989) 585From The Diaries of Donald Friend 586

J.S. MANIFOLD (1915–1985) 589The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth, A.I.F. 589

JUDITH WRIGHT (1915–2000) 591South of My Days 592The Surfer 593Nigger’s Leap, New England 593Woman to Man 594Eroded Hills 595The Two Fires 595At Cooloolah 596Eve to Her Daughters 597Memory 599Skins 599

DAVID CAMPBELL (1915–1979) 600Men in Green 600Winter 601Kelly Country 602The Australian Dream 605

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MANNING CLARK (1915–1991) 607From A History of Australia 607

YIRRKALA PEOPLE 612Yirrkala Bark Petition 613

NARRITJIN MAYMURU (c. 1916–1981) 614Letter to Mr H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT 615

JESSICA ANDERSON (b. 1916) 615From Tirra Lirra by the River 616

JAMES McAULEY (1917–1976) 618Envoi 619Terra Australis 619Dialogue 620St John’s Park, New Town 620Credo 621Father, Mother, Son 621

JACK DAVIS (1917–2000) 622The First-born 623The Black Tracker 623Warru 624Integration 625Walker 626

ERN MALLEY 626Dürer: Innsbruck, 1495 627Night Piece 627Petit Testament 628

VINCENT LINGIARI (1919–1988) 629Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General 630

OLGA MASTERS (1919–1986) 631The Christmas Parcel 632

IDA WEST (1919–2003) 645From Pride Against Prejudice 645

ROSEMARY DOBSON (b. 1920) 648Child With a Cockatoo 649Over the Frontier 650The Almond-tree in the King James Version 651Who? 651Reading Aloud 652

COLIN THIELE (1920–2006) 653From The Sun on the Stubble 653

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OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (1920–1993) 661 Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal Council

for Aboriginal Advancement 662Aboriginal Charter of Rights 663The Dispossessed 665We Are Going 665Assimilation—No! 666Integration—Yes! 666The Dawn is at Hand 667No More Boomerang 668Ballad of the Totems 670

ROBIN DALTON (b. 1920) 670From Aunts Up the Cross 671

GWEN HARWOOD (1920–1995) 672Father and Child (part I) 673Matinee 674Carnal Knowledge II 676Andante 677Dialogue 678Mother Who Gave Me Life 679Bone Scan 680The Sick Philosopher 681Letter to Tony Riddell 682

RAY LAWLER (b. 1921) 682From Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 683

DONALD HORNE (1921–2005) 690From The Education of Young Donald 690

RITA HUGGINS (1921–1996) and JACKIE HUGGINS (b. 1956) 693From Auntie Rita 694

JACOB G. ROSENBERG (1922–2008) 699From East of Time 699

DOROTHY HEWETT (1923–2002) 702Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod 703Grave Fairytale 705Living Dangerously 707From The Man from Mukinupin 708From Wild Card 710

CHARMIAN CLIFT (1923–1969) 715Images in Aspic 715

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ERIC ROLLS (1923–2007) 718From A Million Wild Acres 718

ELIZABETH JOLLEY (1923–2007) 721Night Runner 721

MONICA CLARE (1924–1973) 734From Karobran 735

FRANCIS WEBB (1925–1973) 739The Explorer’s Wife 739End of the Picnic 740Eyre All Alone (part I) 740Ward Two (parts I and II) 741

VINCENT BUCKLEY (1925–1988) 743Golden Builders (part I) 744

THEA ASTLEY (1925–2004) 745From It’s Raining in Mango 746

JESSIE LENNON (c. 1925–2000) 752From And I Always Been Moving! 753

ALAN SEYMOUR (b. 1927) 753From The One Day of the Year 754

BRUCE BEAVER (1928–2004) 758Letters to Live Poets (parts I and VI) 759

PETER PORTER (b. 1929) 763Sydney Cove, 1788 763On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year 765Sex and the Over Forties 767An Exequy 767What I Have Written I Have Written 770

R.A. SIMPSON (1929–2002) 771Evening 772Parallels 772

K.S. INGLIS (b. 1929) 773From Sacred Places 773

GEOFFREY BLAINEY (b. 1930) 776From The Rush that Never Ended 777

MENA ABDULLAH (b. 1930) and RAY MATHEW (1929–2002) 780The Dragon of Kashmir 780

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BRUCE DAWE (b. 1930) 784A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love 784Homecoming 785And a Good Friday Was Had by All 786

FRANK MALKORDA (c. 1930–1993) 787Ngalalak/White Cockatoo 787Muralkarra/Crow 788

SHIRLEY HAZZARD (b. 1931) 788From People in Glass Houses 789

CHRISTOPHER KOCH (b. 1932) 795From The Year of Living Dangerously 795

VIVIAN SMITH (b. 1933) 798Balmoral Summer 799Tasmania 799Sydney Perhaps 800

KEVIN GILBERT (1933–1993) 800People Are Legends 801From The Cherry Pickers 802Redfern 808Me and Jackomari Talkin’ About Land Rights 809Tree 810Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra 810Song of Dreamtime 811

FAY ZWICKY (b. 1933) 812Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989 813Makassar, 1956 814

JENNIFER STRAUSS (b. 1933) 818Discourse in Eden 818A Mother’s Day Letter: Not for Posting 820

BARRY HUMPHRIES (b. 1934) 820Maroan 821Edna’s Hymn 822Letter to Richard Allen 822From More Please 823

CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE (b. 1934) 826The Swing 826Introspection 827God 828An Elegy 829

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Puck Disembarks 829New Year 830

DAVID MALOUF (b. 1934) 831The Year of the Foxes 831Poem 833A First Place 833The Only Speaker of His Tongue 8397 Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian 842

RUBY LANGFORD GINIBI (b. 1934) 844From Don’t Take Your Love to Town 845

JILL KER CONWAY (b. 1934) 848From The Road from Coorain 848

BOB RANDALL (b. 1934) 851Brown Skin Baby 852

INGA CLENDINNEN (b. 1934) 852From Tiger’s Eye 853

RANDOLPH STOW (b. 1935) 862From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 863

THOMAS KENEALLY (b. 1935) 868From Bring Larks and Heroes 868From Schindler’s Ark 873

RODNEY HALL (b. 1935) 875From Just Relations 876Missing Person 878

THOMAS SHAPCOTT (b. 1935) 879The City of Home 880For Judith Wright 881

CHARLES PERKINS (1936–2000) 882Letter to the Editor 883

ERIC WILLMOT (b. 1936) 884From Pemulwuy 884

BURNUM BURNUM (1936–1997) 887The Burnum Burnum Declaration 888

ALEX MILLER (b. 1936) 888From The Ancestor Game 889

HERB WHARTON (b. 1936) 892Boat People—Big Trial 892

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DORIS PILKINGTON (b. 1937) 895From Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 895

LES MURRAY (b. 1938) 900Rainwater Tank 901The Quality of Sprawl 902Second Essay on Interest: The Emu 903Bats’ Ultrasound 905Hearing Impairment 905Poetry and Religion 907The Tin Wash Dish 908The Last Hellos 908The Instrument 911The Cool Green 912

FRANK MOORHOUSE (b. 1938) 913From Forty-Seventeen 914

MUDROOROO (b. 1938) 923From Master of the Ghost Dreaming 924

ROBERT HUGHES (b. 1938) 927From Culture of Complaint 928

MARY ROSE LIVERANI (b. 1939) 931From The Winter Sparrows 931

CLIVE JAMES (b. 1939) 939From Unreliable Memoirs 939

GERALD MURNANE (b. 1939) 945Why I Write What I Write 945

BARBARA HANRAHAN (1939–1991) 948Tottie Tippett 948

GERMAINE GREER (b. 1939) 955From Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 956

PETER STEELE (b. 1939) 963Ape 963

J.S. HARRY (b. 1939) 964Journeys West of ‘War’ 964

GEOFF PAGE (b. 1940) 975Smalltown Memorials 975

ANDREW TAYLOR (b. 1940) 976The Dead Father 976

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JIMMY PIKE (c. 1940–2002) 979From Yinti 979

J.M. COETZEE (b. 1940) 981From Elizabeth Costello 981

GEOFFREY LEHMANN (b. 1940) 984Thirteen Long-Playing Haiku 984

MURRAY BAIL (b. 1941) 989Life of the Party 989

JENNIFER RANKIN (1941–1979) 995Cliffs 995Slow Wing 996First Poem—Metamorphosis 996

BEVERLEY FARMER (b. 1941) 997Ismini 997

ROGER McDONALD (b. 1941) 1004From Shearers’ Motel 1004

GERRY BOSTOCK (b. 1942) 1008From Here Comes the Nigger 1009

HELEN GARNER (b. 1942) 1014From The Children’s Bach 1015The Life of Art 1017At the Morgue 1022

DAVID WILLIAMSON (b. 1942) 1029From Emerald City 1030

JOHN A. NEWFONG (1943–1999) 1033To Number One Fella Big White Boss 1033

ROBERT ADAMSON (b. 1943) 1035Sonnets to be Written from Prison 1036My Granny 1038Songs for Juno 1039The Greenshank 1040Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight 1041

PETER CAREY (b. 1943) 1042American Dreams 1043From True History of the Kelly Gang 1052

BARRY ANDREWS (1943–1987) 1055Lap, Phar 1055

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JOHN TRANTER (b. 1943) 1056At the Laundromat 1056Ode to Col Joye 1057Country Veranda 1061Having Completed My Fortieth Year 1063After Hölderlin 1065

BARRY HILL (b. 1943) 1066Lizards 1066

PHILIP McLAREN (b. 1943) 1074From Sweet Water … Stolen Land 1074

WILLIAM YANG (b. 1943) 1078From Sadness 1078

ROBERTA SYKES (b. c. 1943) 1080From Snake Cradle 1081

ROBERT DREWE (b. 1943) 1083From The Shark Net 1084

GERARD WINDSOR (b. 1944) 1089Addendum to the First Fleet Journals 1089

ROBERT DESSAIX (b. 1944) 1092From A Mother’s Disgrace 1092

PAUL KEATING (b. 1944) 1098The Ghost of the Swagman 1098

DAVID FOSTER (b. 1944) 1101From The Glade Within the Grove 1102

PETER SKRZYNECKI (b. 1945) 1105Migrant Hostel 1105

ANNE SUMMERS (b. 1945) 1106From Damned Whores and God’s Police 1106

ROBERT GRAY (b. 1945) 1110Diptych 1110

MICHAEL LEUNIG (b. 1945) 1113One of the Preambles 1114The Life Cycle of the Supermarket Trolley 1114How Democracy Actually Works 1114

KEV CARMODY (b. 1946) 1115From Little Things Big Things Grow 1115

JOHN MUK MUK BURKE (b. 1946) 1117A Poem for Gran 1117

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DRUSILLA MODJESKA (b. 1946) 1118From Stravinsky’s Lunch 1118

MARTIN JOHNSTON (1947–1990) 1122The Sea-Cucumber 1122‘The typewriter, considered as a bee-trap’ 1123

BRUCE PASCOE (b. 1947) 1124The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher 1124

ERROL WEST (1947–2001) 1130‘Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?’ 1130

DAVID MARR (b. 1947) 1131From Patrick White 1131

AMANDA LOHREY (b. 1947) 1135From Camille’s Bread 1136

ALF TAYLOR (b. 1947) 1137The Wool Pickers 1137

MICHAEL DRANSFIELD (1948–1973) 1143Pas de Deux for Lovers 1143Fix 1144Flying 1145

JOHN SCOTT (b. 1948) 1145Pride of Erin 1145Plato’s Dog 1146

GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1948) 1147Barunga Statement 1147

JOHN CLARKE (b. 1948) 1148Muse of Bauxite 1149A Child’s Christmas in Warrnambool 1150

PATRICK DODSON (b. 1948) 1150 Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of

Indigenous People in National Constitutions 1151

PAM BROWN (b. 1948) 1152At the Wall 1152

ROSIE SCOTT (b. 1948) 1154The Value of Writers 1154

ALAN WEARNE (b. 1948) 1158From The Lovemakers 1159Come on Aussie 1161

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ALAN GOULD (b. 1949) 1162Rain Governs the Small Hours 1162

LAURIE DUGGAN (b. 1949) 1163From The Ash Range 1164From The Epigrams of Martial 1169Drinking Socially 1172Air Time 1173

GLENYSE WARD (b. 1949) 1173From Wandering Girl 1174

KEN BOLTON (b. 1949) 1177Paris to Pam Brown 1177

JENNIFER MARTINIELLO (b. 1949) 1180Uluru by Champagne 1181Emily Kngwarreye 1181

YAHIA AL-SAMAWY (b. 1949) 1183Your Voice is My Flute 1183

JENNIFER MAIDEN (b. 1949) 1184Dracula on the Monaro 1185Old Europe Stared at Her Breakfast 1186

KEVIN BROPHY (b. 1949) 1187Box 1188

JOHN FORBES (1950–1998) 1189To the Bobbydazzlers 1189Stalin’s Holidays 1190Ode/‘Goodbye Memory’ 1191Speed, a Pastoral 1192Love Poem 1192Anzac Day 1193

KATE GRENVILLE (b. 1950) 1194From Lilian’s Story 1195

KENNY LAUGHTON (b. 1950) 1202The Tunnel Rats of Phuoc Tuy 1202

PHILIP SALOM (b. 1950) 1204Seeing Gallipoli from the Sky 1204

LOUIS NOWRA (b. 1950) 1206From Radiance 1207

MICK DODSON (b. 1950) 1213We All Bear the Cost if Apology is Not Paid 1213

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ALEXIS WRIGHT (b. 1950) 1215From Plains of Promise 1216From Carpentaria 1220

BRIAN CASTRO (b. 1950) 1222From Shanghai Dancing 1222

ANIA WALWICZ (b. 1951) 1225Australia 1225Little Red Riding Hood 1226

SALLY MORGAN (b. 1951) 1226From My Place 1226

MARCIA LANGTON (b. 1951) 1232From ‘Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television ...’ 1232

STEPHEN EDGAR (b. 1951) 1236All Will be Revealed 1236Sun Pictorial 1237

JILL JONES (b. 1951) 1238The Night Before Your Return 1238

PETER GOLDSWORTHY (b. 1951) 1239The Kiss 1240Australia 1252

SAM WATSON (b. 1952) 1252From The Kadaitcha Sung 1253

KEVIN HART (b. 1954) 1255Facing the Pacifi c at Night 1256The Calm 1256

DOROTHY PORTER (1954–2008) 1257From The Monkey’s Mask 1258

MICHAEL GOW (b. 1955) 1261From Away 1261

GRAEME DIXON (b. 1955) 1265Six Feet of Land Rights 1266Holocaust Island 1266

ARCHIE ROACH (b. 1955) 1266Took the Children Away 1267

GAIL JONES (b. 1955) 1269Modernity 1269

PETER ROSE (b. 1955) 1275Donatello in Wangaratta 1275From Rose Boys 1277

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OUYANG YU (b. 1955) 1281The Ungrateful Immigrant 1281Listening to the Chinese Woman Philosopher 1282

GIG RYAN (b. 1956) 1283If I Had a Gun 1283Hay Fever 1285Critique of Pure Reason 1285

PAT TORRES (b. 1956) 1286Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird 1286Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab 1286

MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1956) 1287Treaty 1287

JUDITH BEVERIDGE (b. 1956) 1288Yachts 1288How to Love Bats 1290The Saffron Picker 1292

KERRY REED-GILBERT (b. 1956) 1292Let’s Get Physical 1293

HANNIE RAYSON (b. 1957) 1294From Hotel Sorrento 1294

NICK CAVE (b. 1957) 1299Opium Tea 1300

KIM SCOTT (b. 1957) 1301From Benang 1301

MICHELLE DE KRETSER (b. 1957) 1307From The Hamilton Case 1307

ANTHONY LAWRENCE (b. 1957) 1310The Language of Bleak Averages 1310A Profi le of the Dead 1313

LIONEL FOGARTY (b. 1958) 1313Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive 1314Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots 1315Ecology 1317For I Come—Death in Custody 1318Kath Walker 1319‘Dulpai—Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man’ 1320Alcheringa 1327

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SARAH DAY (b. 1958) 1328Quickening 1328Take Heart 1328

PHILIP HODGINS (1959–1995) 1329A Palinode 1329Shooting the Dogs 1329Strathbogie Ranges 1965 1331Cytotoxic Rigor 1331

VENERO ARMANNO (b. 1959) 1331From The Volcano 1332

TIM WINTON (b. 1960) 1333My Father’s Axe 1334

ADAM AITKEN (b. 1960) 1341Post-colonial 1341Changi 1343

LISA BELLEAR (1961–2006) 1344Women’s Liberation 1344Woman of the Dreaming 1346Urbanised Reebocks 1347Taxi 1348

RICHARD FLANAGAN (b. 1961) 1348From The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1348

JORDIE ALBISTON (b. 1961) 1350The Fall 1350

EMMA LEW (b. 1962) 1353Marshes 1353Nettle Song 1354

LUKE DAVIES (b. 1962) 1354Totem Poem (lines 1–245) 1354

CRAIG SHERBORNE (b. 1962) 1362Ash Saturday 1362

RICHARD FRANKLAND (b. 1963) 1364Two World One 1364

JOHN KINSELLA (b. 1963) 1365The Vital Waters 1365Map: Land Subjected to Inundation 1374

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TRACY RYAN (b. 1964) 1376Wungong 1376Eclipse, Kenwick, 1974 1377

CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS (b. 1965) 1378From Dead Europe 1378

ANDREW McGAHAN (b. 1966) 1380From 1988 1381

DELIA FALCONER (b. 1966) 1384Republic of Love 1384

MELISSA LUCASHENKO (b. 1967) 1389From Steam Pigs 1389

SONYA HARTNETT (b. 1968) 1391From Of a Boy 1392

ROMAINE MORETON (b. 1969) 1393Genocide is Never Justifi ed 1394

SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON (b. 1972) 1395White Stucco Dreaming 1395For the Wake and Skeleton Dance 1396Cheap White-goods at the Dreamtime Sale 1397

CHI VU (b. 1973) 1398From Vietnam: A psychic guide 1398

Glossary 1403Selected Reading 1409Sources and Permissions 1428Index 1449

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