Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 242
... paperbarks of the soak , through the dunes , to the tossing sea . He carried his new little brother on his back , and his mother walked beside him . Jack Chatalong was riding high , looking around , enjoying the wind blowing from the ...
... paperbarks of the soak , through the dunes , to the tossing sea . He carried his new little brother on his back , and his mother walked beside him . Jack Chatalong was riding high , looking around , enjoying the wind blowing from the ...
Page 451
... remembered places very like it , from my own childhood . We slept among old and gnarled ti - trees . Magpies woke us in the morning , and danced away into a little clump of paperbarks which showed , in the way the flaking bark 451.
... remembered places very like it , from my own childhood . We slept among old and gnarled ti - trees . Magpies woke us in the morning , and danced away into a little clump of paperbarks which showed , in the way the flaking bark 451.
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From the Heart Kim Scott. paperbarks which showed , in the way the flaking bark had not yet grown back over charred - black wood , the signs of past fire . In the mornings the fine sand along the edge of the dune vegetation held the ...
From the Heart Kim Scott. paperbarks which showed , in the way the flaking bark had not yet grown back over charred - black wood , the signs of past fire . In the mornings the fine sand along the edge of the dune vegetation held the ...
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Aborigines arms Auber Aunty Australian Natives Association beach Benang bird boat camp campfire Chief Protector child Constable Hall Daniel Coolman dark Dinah Dubitj Creek dunes Ern's eyes face Fanny father feet felt fire Frederickstown Gebalup girl Grandad grandfather grandfather's grinning half-caste hands Harriette head heard held hessian horse Jack Chatalong Kathleen kids Kim Scott knew Kylie Bay land laughed listened looked mallee Mason Mogumber mother moved Mustle natives Neville Nyoongar Nyungar once paperbarks perhaps police policeman Protector of Aborigines quadroon railway rainwater tank remember sand seemed Sergeant Hall shoulder sister skin smile someone Starr stay talk teamsters thin things thought told Tommy took Topsy town trees turned Uncle Jack voice wagon walked wanted watched wife wind Wirlup Haven woman women words Yeah