Wild Flowers single work   poetry   "Mallets pound fence posts"
Alternative title: Flores Silvestres
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Wild Flowers
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Creative Spirits 2000 6494664 2000 website

    Creative Spirits was created by 'Australian German' Jens Korff in 1999, originally to tell of his travels through Western Australia. Subsequently he expanded the website to include Aboriginal DVDs and CDs that he had either owned or heard of. In 2006 he added a section about Aboriginal culture. It now contains sections such as Aboriginal resources; Australia resources and travel; poems & stories; and photography.

    Source: Creative Spirits website http://www.creativespirits.info/ (Sighted 15/11/13)

    2000
    Section: Arts : Aboriginal Poems
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Mascara Literary Review no. 15 May 2014 7424708 2014 periodical issue 2014
    Note: Parallel translation in Spanish and English

Works about this Work

Poetry Writing Workshops as ‘True, Impossible Archives’ (or, Teaching as Collaborative Research) Kate Fagan , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 68 2021;

'In my poetry writing workshops I often teach ‘Wild Flowers’, a stunning poem by Yankunytjatjara author Ali Cobby Eckermann. Several years ago, my first-year students at Western Sydney University were reading ‘Wild Flowers’ alongside ‘Rise Again’ by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. One student offered an electrifying reading of Eckermann’s poem that I’ve never forgotten. He began by recalling a trip to Beirut he’d made as a young adult, long after leaving the city as a child and migrating with his family to Western Sydney. How did the city appear to you, I asked? The same, he deadpanned, with more bullet holes.' (Introduction)

Poetry Writing Workshops as ‘True, Impossible Archives’ (or, Teaching as Collaborative Research) Kate Fagan , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 68 2021;

'In my poetry writing workshops I often teach ‘Wild Flowers’, a stunning poem by Yankunytjatjara author Ali Cobby Eckermann. Several years ago, my first-year students at Western Sydney University were reading ‘Wild Flowers’ alongside ‘Rise Again’ by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. One student offered an electrifying reading of Eckermann’s poem that I’ve never forgotten. He began by recalling a trip to Beirut he’d made as a young adult, long after leaving the city as a child and migrating with his family to Western Sydney. How did the city appear to you, I asked? The same, he deadpanned, with more bullet holes.' (Introduction)

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