Nadia Rhook Nadia Rhook i(9786028 works by)
Gender: Female
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'Nadia Rhook is a white settler historian, educator, and poet, currently lecturing history at the University of Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar land.  Her background in ESL teaching has inspired much of her historical work on the politics of language, including the 2016 heritage exhibition ‘Moving Tongues : language and migration in 1890s Melbourne’.'  (https://australianmultilingualwriting.org/2020/01/15/nadia-rhook-a-father-tongue/)

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y separately published work icon Second Fleet Baby Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 24397488 2022 selected work poetry A poetry collection that explores the connections between mothering, healing, history and inheritance.
'Second Fleet Baby examines birth and motherhood, with a consciousness that spans centuries. This poetry draws on the energies of 18th Century English convict women, including Rhook's own ancestors, to open raw questions of belonging. How might a settler reconcile the violence bound up with their role populating stolen land with the love and euphoria that can flow from parenthood? Intergenerational ties are traced through the soft weapons of the body, connecting the intimacies of nation-making with the politics of reproduction in lavishly personal ways. Through stories of childhood, of fertility, and of nurturing new life during a pandemic, the patriarchal weight of history is cast off and origins are pulled 'from the seabed to the surface'.' 

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2023 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards — Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry
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