Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Whittaker tells us in her introduction to this anthology of First Australians poetry that ‘it’s a cliché to say that Indigenous poetry is powerful’. What is …
DREAMING INSIDE: Phillip Hall Reviews VOICES FROM JUNEE CORRECTIONAL CENTRE VOLUME 5
Dreaming Inside is a powerful and important project brought to fruition by the hard work and vision of Aunty Barbara Nicholson. Aunty Barb has coordinated a partnership between The Black …
FEELING PLACE: SLOW-TIME ON COUNTRY. Jeanine Leane Reviews Phillip Hall’s Fume
Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In 2011, Phillip Hall was, in his own words, ‘offered the opportunity of a lifetime, to work in remote Indigenous education’. His collection of non-fiction poetry …
THEIR WORDS BLAZE: Phillip Hall ReviewsToo Deadly: Our Voice, Our Way, Our Business
My elders, I hear them speak loud and strong with messages of culture and belonging. The essence of me. Who I am and who I’ll always be. Proud. Strong. Aboriginal. …
Professional Conduct
(Phillip Hall)
Professional Conduct After Jan Senbergs, ‘Otway Night’ With all the swagger of Buckley’s and none I bark my soprano cacophony, like a howling jackass, anchoring a calling to be needed, …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 5: Anne Elvey and Phillip Hall on Ecopoetry
ANNE ELVEY AND PHILLIP HALL: If you’re thinking birds, trees and butterflies, take a seat. Join Anne Elvey, our Black Cockatoo Editor Phillip Hall and Managing Editor Michele Seminara as …
The Mother Load: Consolation and Happiness in Lorraine McGuigan’s Blood Plums and Lucy Williams’ internal weather
Review by Phillip Hall These two books from Walleah Press explore our intimate familial relationships in ways that prize domestic security while interrogating the many things that would threaten it, …
Claiming Ground in the Imagination of Place: Martin Langford’s Ground
Ground is Martin Langford’s latest book and it features on its cover a black-and-white photograph of cloud. In choosing this clever image, Puncher & Wattmann’s cover designer Matthew Holt is …
Concourse for the Borroloola mob (Phillip Gijindarraji Hall)
In my troopie dodging dogs, ditches and broken bikes I’m at a camp of concrete blocks, crushed soft drink cans and verandas strewn with mattresses: here each building’s bound …