Wita Witalana: (look out over)
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781763670174
Publisher: Recent Work Press
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Wita Witalana (look out over), Paul Collis' second collection of poetry, deliberately inhabits space where history is written on the person. But it is a history deeper than, and in contest with, any idea of 'Australia'. Collis asks us not only to see the effects of colonialism on a people, but to experience those effects as someone thrown into its brutal shadows. It mourns old ways of being, the loss of connection with country, and the loss of family and friends while offering a powerful meditation on the complexities of Indigenous life in contemporary Australia. These poems resonate with a deep sense of longing, memory, and the enduring strength of connection to land and culture. They are a powerful call to listen to messages carried through the trees, and a reminder of the stories etched within the Australian soil.
'The searing 'Barkindji' voice reminds us that so much remains unreconciled in the depravity of colonialism, crimson brush strokes on tarnished Dreaming.'
Sam Wagan Watson
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