Love Dreaming and Other Poems

Ali Cobby Eckermann

Love Dreaming and Other Poems
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vagabond Press
Country
Australia
Published
22 September 2014
Pages
64
ISBN
9781922181725

Love Dreaming and Other Poems

Ali Cobby Eckermann

In Love Dreaming & Other Poems Cobby Eckermann bears witness to a deep commitment to her traditional kin, culture and language as she tells the story of her search for her family on the traditional Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha lands in the north west of South Australia. At the same time, she lays bare the ongoing effects of governmental policy and paternalism on Australia’s indigenous peoples.

Engaging with events around Alice Springs, these poems give firsthand witness to the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response by the Federal Government, commonly known as The Intervention, and its ongoing effects on regional and remote Indigenous communities. These poems lay open the complexity of the internal conflict felt among Aboriginal people today, as they constantly need to adjust to contemporary Australia. Cobby Eckermann notes, ‘My times in the desert are my happiest, and the soft blanket felt when my traditional language is spoken around me, is a feeling of pure love.’

‘This is a collection by one of Indigenous Australian poetry’s most vital new voices, sung with two eyes wide open to the present reality without fear or prejudice, with an overflowing love and care for the future.

These are the offerings of a writer who has journeyed with great determination through apparently irretrievable loss, through chaos, disintegration and desolation, who has harvested the gifts of insight and emotional and spiritual intelligence and compassion, and who now reveals these insights to the eyes and ears of others through lucid images and punchy language.’ - Terry Whitebeach

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