2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize Archives

Prize Winning Poems from our Black Cockatoo Editors Brenda Saunders & Yvette Henry Holt

Verity La November 30, 2018 Black Cockatoo, Poetry

Verity La are proud of the achievements of all our fantastic editors. Recently, poems from two of our Black Cockatoo editors, Brenda Saunders and Yvette Henry Holt, placed as Winner & Highly …

Papi Pichón (Dimitri Reyes)March 13, 2018
papi pichón flies out of my library book and no one hears him because he chirps at spanish-to-english dictionary speed. all dismiss papi’s beautiful wings a sabre, a grindstone attached ... Read More
Sea of Souls (James Walton)August 10, 2016
There’s a cove. A house straggles a sagging beach, where behind a patched blind the Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower sends its summons through the wave speakers. God ... Read More
Spit Hood (Teena McCarthy)July 12, 2019
for Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller and all those held in detention and suffering deaths in custody Oh, such a pretty picture this Kingdom of the Crown. In a dark ... Read More