Yinungkwura / West Wind : Groote Eylandt Song single work   poetry   "I've tossed it now, wind and song,"
Note: From a recording obtained by Alice Moyle on Groote Eylandt in 1963. Transcribed and translated by Judith Stokes.
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Yinungkwura / West Wind : Groote Eylandt Song
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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 155-156
    Note: Original language with parallel English translation.
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