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Note: Co-edited by Ali Cobby Eckermann with an introduction by Ali Alizadeh.
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land
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'Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the Land' showcases the intelligence of the Aboriginal grassroots struggle in contemporary Australia, laying open the realness of Lionel Fogarty's Murri mission poetry. The Aboriginal struggle in Australia is not over, but here handed to the next generations to promote their strength. Biame guide! Biame bless!' (Source: Vagabond Press website vagabondpress.net)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2012 .
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      Extent: 160p.
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      ISBN: 9781922181022, 1922181021
    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2014 .
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      Extent: 149p.
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      • Published: 1st July 2014
      ISBN: 9781922181640

Works about this Work

“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty Dashiell Moore , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;

'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)

The Inter-Indigenous Encounter Dashiell Moore , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 57 no. 2 2022; (p. 354–370)

'There exists an extensive amount of research in the fields of anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy driven by settler-oriented comparisons between Indigenous nations that verified the representation of Indigenous peoples as Other. Meanwhile, the amount of scholarly works on comparative Indigenous literary encounters in the last decade is worthy of note as indicative of the emergence of a planetary decolonial consciousness. To present an argument as to the need to think of the planetary agency of Indigenous writers, I will closely examine the variety of poetic strategies utilized by Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann of South Australia, and Yoogum and Kudjela poet Lionel Fogarty of Southern Queensland, in their writing towards other Indigenous peoples from Gaelic Ireland, and the Pacific. This serves two crucial interventions, puncturing through the deficit discourse that essentializes the poethical contribution of Aboriginal writers, and developing comparative strategies for future Indigenous-to-Indigenous encounters.' (Publication abstract)

Spellbound by Living, Breathing Language Michael Farrell , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-39 March 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry ; Love Dreaming & Other Poems Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2012 selected work poetry
Claire Nashar Reviews Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Claire Nashar , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
Tim Wright Reviews Mogwie-Idan Stories of the Land by Lionel Fogarty Tim Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
Best of 2012 : The Top 10 Poetic Works Ali Alizadeh , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2012;

— Review of The Jaguar's Dream : Translations, Adaptations, Versions, Extrapolations, Interpolations, Afters, Takes and Departures John Kinsella , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ash Is Here, So are Stars Jill Jones , 2012 selected work poetry ; The Family Idiot Fiona Hile , 2012 selected work poetry ; Autoethnographic Michael Brennan , 2012 selected work poetry ; 2012 and Other Poems Amanda Anastasi , 2012 selected work poetry ; Water Mirrors Nick Powell , 2012 selected work poetry ; Ruby Moonlight Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2012 single work novel ; Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry ; Marionette : Notes Toward the Life and Times of Miss Marion Davies Jessica Wilkinson , 2012 selected work poetry
Tim Wright Reviews Mogwie-Idan Stories of the Land by Lionel Fogarty Tim Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
Claire Nashar Reviews Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Claire Nashar , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
Spellbound by Living, Breathing Language Michael Farrell , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-39 March 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Mogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry ; Love Dreaming & Other Poems Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2012 selected work poetry
The Inter-Indigenous Encounter Dashiell Moore , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 57 no. 2 2022; (p. 354–370)

'There exists an extensive amount of research in the fields of anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy driven by settler-oriented comparisons between Indigenous nations that verified the representation of Indigenous peoples as Other. Meanwhile, the amount of scholarly works on comparative Indigenous literary encounters in the last decade is worthy of note as indicative of the emergence of a planetary decolonial consciousness. To present an argument as to the need to think of the planetary agency of Indigenous writers, I will closely examine the variety of poetic strategies utilized by Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann of South Australia, and Yoogum and Kudjela poet Lionel Fogarty of Southern Queensland, in their writing towards other Indigenous peoples from Gaelic Ireland, and the Pacific. This serves two crucial interventions, puncturing through the deficit discourse that essentializes the poethical contribution of Aboriginal writers, and developing comparative strategies for future Indigenous-to-Indigenous encounters.' (Publication abstract)

“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty Dashiell Moore , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;

'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)

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