Judith Nangala Crispin Judith Nangala Crispin i(7841634 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bangerang / Kwat Kwat / Waveroo
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1 Poem of the Dead Women i "The dead woman rides a motorcycle, out of Ord River Valley, beyond sand plains,", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 30-31)
1 Visitors i "Alfy carries Snake Jukurrpa from his father’s line, along with stories of the visitors—people, who are also snakes, white-coloured or gray. They came on meteors,", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 The Dingo Fence i "The motorcycle and its travelling shadow are aliens in this flatness.", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 Assembly (The Modelled Forms) Judith Nangala Crispin , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 The Burning of the Brumbies Judith Nangala Crispin , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022; (p. 63)
1 Purgatory Judith Nangala Crispin , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 134)
1 Murder at Wave Hill i "Yes, he is beautiful, the boy dancing with men, purlapa, snake story — his skin gleams", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2021; Borderless : A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry 2021; (p. 30-31)
1 Elegy for a Thylacine in the National Museum i "All the others are gone, erased–", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 The Boabs i "I can’t sleep here, in this curve", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record i "We meet on the surface of a photograph, as a fish and bird might meet", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 121) The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 58) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 165) The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022; (p. 62)
1 A Declaration of Love for Humanity : Judith Crispin Reviews Les Wicks' Belief Judith Nangala Crispin , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2019;

— Review of Belief Les Wicks , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Vision 1 (from The Dingo’s Noctuary) Fitzroy Crossing Judith Nangala Crispin , 2019 single work novel extract
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2019;
1 Noctuary Entry 23, January 3, 2017 (from The Dingo’s Noctuary) Language of the Birds Judith Nangala Crispin , 2019 single work novel extract
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2019;
1 Vision 2 (from The Dingo's Noctuary): The Mongrels Judith Nangala Crispin , 2019 single work novel extract
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2019;
1 Protected : Snake Dream 1 and Artwork i "FIRST DESCENT OF THE SNAKE, or how Billy Graham was the", Judith Nangala Crispin , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 44 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 171-174)
1 24 April 1915 : Australia's Armenian Story Over a Century Vicken Babkenian , Judith Nangala Crispin , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Honest History Book 2017;
1 The Lumen Seed Judith Nangala Crispin , 2017 single work extract
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2017;
1 y separately published work icon The Lumen Seed : Records of a Search in the Australian Desert Judith Nangala Crispin , North Carolina : Daylight Books , 2017 11214462 2017 selected work poetry art work

'The Lumen Seed contains photographs, drawings and poems about the indigenous Warlpiri people of Australia's Northern Tanami Desert.

'The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against indigenous [sic] peoples on the part of the country's white population. The images, created by Australia-based artist Judith Crispin in close consultation with indigenous [sic] people, document an attempt by the Warlpiri group to share sacred information with white people; the poems convey the artist's interpretation of those ideas, alongside her development of personal relationships with community elders.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Five Threnodies For Maralinga Judith Nangala Crispin , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , September no. C1 2016; The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 43-44)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Myrrh-Bearers Judith Nangala Crispin , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2015 9243015 2015 selected work poetry

'The Myrrh-Bearers is a book of love poems, describing real events and real people as the poet has experienced them. The worlds evoked in these poems are suffused with faerie tales, myth and philosophy. The genesis of this collection lies in a diverse engagement with different poetries: the influence of the Polish poets Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz is discernible, along with that of the French poets Henri Michaux, René Char, René Daumal and Alfred Jarry; there is also the sure presence of Gwen Harwood and Judith Wright as well as, more esoterically, William Blake and G. I. Gurdjieff. The pataphysical influence of Jarry, in particular, leads to a poetry which attempts to describe a universe supplementary to the one which we inhabit. The presence of music as a subject stems from the poet’s close engagement with her musical mentors, Larry Sitsky in Australia, Emmanuel Nunes in France and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany. This is a rich and unusual collection which will reward readers interested in the way poetry can suggest new ways of looking at the world.' (Publication summary)

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