Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Life, Love and Pain : An Anthology of Poems Written by Stolen Generations Link Up (NSW)
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Notes

  • It comes from the heart. / May it go to the heart. / Beethoven, Missa Solemnis / Quoted from Peter Read's Belonging, CUP 2000 / This volume is a special one as we pay our love and / respects to the passing of two of our elders and / Link Up founding members / Auntie Nancy De Vries, / Auntie Joy Williams, the editor of this book. / May the wings of love from the Link Up family speed / their way to the Dreaming.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Lawson, Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,:Stolen Generations Link Up Aboriginal Corporation , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Joy I Knewi"We talked that morning, as we often did", Barbara Nicholson , single work poetry (p. xi-xiii)
My Joyi"My Joy has been a good friend to me", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 1)
No Way to Raise a Childi"He was barely three when the welfare came", Barbara Nicholson , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
Where Are My Children?i"The day is done and the sun is falling,", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 4-5)
When will They Bring My Tommy Back Home?i"I wandered into an old country town and in a tin shack an old black woman I found,", Elaine P. Lomas , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Untitledi"I seem, sometimes, to be O.K. alone", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 8)
If Onlyi"If only I had the courage to", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 9)
Untitledi"I wonder if I'll let another touch me.", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
What's My Real Name?, Lorraine McGee-Sippel , single work life story short story (p. 13-15)
Yesterdayi"Yesterday we survived as one", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 16)
A Cup of Milki"'Please, Mum, may I have", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 17)
When I Was Youngi"When I was young", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 18)
Voicesi"The wind whispers through the trees like", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 19)
Never Morei"Separated", Pauline E. McLeod , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Despairi"The sea so calm so brilliant blue in contrast to the sky", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 22)
Nan's Countryi"I am of the Yorta Yorta", Lorraine McGee-Sippel , single work poetry (p. 23)
Jasmine Teai"The bedroom is quiet,", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
Note: Dedication: To you, from me
The Lost and Rejectedi"The lost, the dead and the dying, the spirits", Marie Melito-Russell , single work poetry (p. 26)
A Love Poemi"I was thinking today that if all", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 27)
Beethoveni"Beethoven", Joy Williams , single work poetry (p. 28)

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Works about this Work

Indigenous Stories Told Collectively BlackWords : Indigenous Stories Told Collectively Anita Heiss , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 5) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

In this essay Heiss discusses and explains the important role of anthologies in the creation of communities of writers and in acknowledging, consolidating and launching writing careers.

Indigenous Stories Told Collectively BlackWords : Indigenous Stories Told Collectively Anita Heiss , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 5) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

In this essay Heiss discusses and explains the important role of anthologies in the creation of communities of writers and in acknowledging, consolidating and launching writing careers.

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