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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Through Old Eyes
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'Published to commemorate the author’s 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people.

'Sometimes wistful, melancholic, poignant, at times the author’s wry sense of fun and humour shines through.

'When he arrived in Sydney in the 1960s, Bigambul man, Uncle Wes, was not allowed to tell his stories at schools. He set up a fire bucket in his backyard and invited families and children from the local Aboriginal community to come to sit around the fire and share his stories. It did not take long for the police to arrive and arrest him for hosting an unlawful gathering – he spent two days in lock-up for sharing his stories.

'Uncle Wes is a living treasure of Aboriginal storytelling wisdom. Through his poems Uncle Wes invites the reader to join him by the fire as he generously shares his reflections and reminiscences on one hundred years.'  (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Blackbooks , 2022 .
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      Extent: 112p.p.
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      • Published July 2022
      ISBN: 9780645428209 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Uncle Wes Published in Time for 100th Birthday Susanna Freymark , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 May no. 776 2022; (p. 5)
'Everything you need to know about Uncle Wes Marne can be found in his poems.' 
Uncle Wes Published in Time for 100th Birthday Susanna Freymark , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 May no. 776 2022; (p. 5)
'Everything you need to know about Uncle Wes Marne can be found in his poems.' 
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