Smoke Encrypted Whispers First Nations Classics |
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| Author:
| Watson, Samuel Wagan
Birch, Tony |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7022-6857-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2024 |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson' s imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. Wagan Watson' s poetry is the work of an artist who speaks to a sense of our common humanity, and to a communal attachment to place....
More DescriptionSmoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson' s imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. Wagan Watson' s poetry is the work of an artist who speaks to a sense of our common humanity, and to a communal attachment to place. Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, ' like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime' .