Books in Relation to Poetry

By Jeanne Mrugacz

Poem

• Soon you will take your

rightful place (Noonuccal

ln. 3)

• To your birthright all too

long delayed (Noonuccal

ln. 10)

Book

• Morgan family going to

Corunna Downs Station

• Morgan family learning

about Aboriginal roots

Poem

• Eagerly we must learn to

change, / Learn new

needs we never wanted, /

New compulsions never

needed, / The price of

survival. (Noonuccal 6-9)

• We are the happiest /

Among our own people

(Noonuccal 14&15)

Book

• Grog and White people

things

• Billy feeling he belongs

with the Aborigines

Poem

• Notice of estate agent

reads: ‘Rubbish May Be

Tipped Here’. / Now if half

covers the traces of the

old bora ring (Noonuccal

6&7)

• And we are going

(Noonuccal 26)

Book

• Dump

• Storm and Leaving

Poem

• Let us forget the hurt, /

Join hands and reach /

with hearts that yearn

(Davis 15-17)

• The past is done. / Let us

stand together, / Wide and

tall / And God will smile

upon us each (Davis 20-

14)

Book

• Forgiving relationship

between Kerewin, Joe,

and Simon

• Functioning better as

three than individuals

• Heiss, Anita, and Peter Minter, ed. Anthology of

Australian Aboriginal Literature. Montreal & Kingston:

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 43-46, 59-60.

Print.

• Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. 1st ed. New York:

Penguin, 1986. Print.

• Morgan, Sally. My Place. Western Australia: Fremantle

Arts Center Press, 1987. Print.

• Scott, Kim. True Country. Western Australia: Fremantle

Press, 2010. Print.

• Wright, Alexis. Carpentaria. Reprint Edition. New York:

Atria Books, 2010. Print.