Resources

Websites

Issues of Identity in Aboriginal Poetry - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~poetinc/Jan 2000 5 Bells Aboriginal Poetry.htm

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board - http://www.ozco.gov.au/atsia/

OzPoet - http://www.ozpoet.asn.au/

Australian poetry - http://www.acn.net.au/articles/1998/08/poetry.htm

Books

There are an increasing number of literary works written and published by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  This list provides some titles which feature poetry by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers.   The list is not exhaustive but provides a guide to the variety of poetry written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.

• Do not go around the edges / poems by Daisy Utemorrah ; illustrated by Pat Torres
• Dyirbal song poetry : the oral literature of an Australian rainforest people / R.M.W. Dixon
• Inside Black Australia : an anthology of Aboriginal poetry / edited by Kevin Gilbert
• It just lies there from the beginning : Aboriginal stories and poems from the Top End / <written and collected by> Marjorie Bil Bil
• Jalygurr : Aussie animal rhymes : poems for kids / written and illustrated by Pat Torres ; Yawuru text by Jack Edgar, Elsie Edgar & Thelma Saddler
• Little Eva at Moonlight Creek : and other Aboriginal song poems / edited by Martin Duwell and R.M.W. Dixon
• Message stick : contemporary Aboriginal writing / compiled by Kerry Reed-Gilbert
• Ngali Ngalga (let's talk) : poetry / by Burraga Gutya (Ken Canning)
• Of muse, meandering and midnight / Samuel Wagan Watson
• Paperbark : a collection of Black Australian writings / edited by Jack Davis, Stephen Muecke, Mudrooroo Narogin, Adam Shoemaker
• Rimfire: Poetry from Aboriginal Australia / Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor, Michael J. Smith
• Spirit song : a collection of Aboriginal poetry / compiled by Lorraine Mafi-Williams
• The blackside : people are legends and other poems / Kevin Gilbert
• The Honey-ant men's love song and other Aboriginal song poems / edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Martin Duwell
• The Strength of us as women : black women speak / compiled by Kerry Reed-Gilbert
• Voices from the heart : contemporary Aboriginal poetry from Central Australia / collected and edited by Roger Bennet