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Analyses poems by white Australian authors about dispossession of their land. In his survey of attitudes and poetic technique, Page examines nineteenth and twentieth century poems and finds a reversal of attitudes over time.
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"They Couldn't Tell Us How to Farm Their Skin" : White Poems on Black Dispossession
Subjects:
- The Creek of the Four Graves 1845 single work poetry
- Bora Ring 1944 single work poetry
- The Waradgery Tribe 1956 single work poetry
- The Last of His Tribe 1864 single work poetry
- The Conquest 1971 single work poetry
- The Ballad of Jimmy Governor : H.M. Prison, Darlinghurst, 18th January 1901 1970 single work poetry
- Ross' Poems : 56 1978 single work poetry
- The Women Who Live on the Ground : Poems 1978-1988 1990 selected work poetry
- Wash Day 1985 single work poetry
- The Great Forgetting 1996 selected work poetry
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