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Lily Nungarrayi at Catfish Waterhole, Northern Tanami Desert, 2015

Piccaninny Gorge (Brenda Saunders)

 “that’s where the spirit is … that’s where   the Dreaming is.”                                 — Patrick …

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Brenda SaundersJudith Nangala Crispin

REMEMBERING A DISREMEMBERED PAST: Brenda Saunders reviews Jeanine Leane’s Walk Back Over

Edited by Robyn Cadwalader In this consistently strong collection Janine Leane takes us on a journey. The title, Walk Back Over asks us to step back, take another look at …

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Brenda SaundersJeanine LeaneWalk Back Over

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

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 …

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2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry PrizeBrenda SaundersYvette Henry-Holt
A black and white photograph from inside a cave looking out to Tunnel Creek

Jandamarra (Brenda Saunders)

High walls of sound ring the gorge once more children whisper sacred notes in language sing to heal their wounded land, call up the Unggud Junba. A Great Snake returns …

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Brenda SaundersJandamarra

A LIFE’S JOURNEY: Noel Tovey’s And then I found me

Review by Brenda Saunders Edited by Robyn Cadwallader And then I found me is the story of a creative and talented artist fulfilling his dream. Noel Tovey traces the challenges, …

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And Then I Found MeBrenda SaundersNoel Tovey

Taxi! (Brenda Saunders) & Transformative Progress (Barbara Nicholson)

Taxi! by Brenda Saunders I met her at the lights with six plastic bags Food bought at Woollies with a Salvo’s card making for the taxis on Pitt and Park …

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Barbara NicholsonBrenda Saunders

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