Smoke Encrypted Whispers
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Smoke Encrypted Whispers

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Smoke Encrypted Whispers

About this book

A powerful collection of Indigenous Australian poetry exploring identity, resilience, and urban life.

Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson's imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. This collection, featuring work from three previous volumes, pulses with the language and imagery of a mangrove-lined river city, the open highway, and the echoes of restless ancestors.

Wagan Watson's poems speak to our shared humanity and connection to place. Through vivid imagery and unflinching honesty, he explores themes of identity, loss, and the enduring strength of Indigenous culture in urban Australia. As Tony Birch notes, reading this collection is like witnessing 'Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime.' For readers of Australian literature, poetry, and social commentary.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2024
Edition
2
eBook ISBN
9780702269967
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Imprint page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction by Tony Birch
  8. OF MUSE, MEANDERING AND MIDNIGHT
  9. BOONDALL WETLANDS
  10. HOTEL BONE
  11. ITINERANT BLUES
  12. SMOKE ENCRYPTED WHISPERS
  13. Acknowledgements

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