Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
An authoritative survey of Australian Aboriginal writing over two centuries, across a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. Including some of the most distinctive writing produced in Australia, it offers rich insights into Aboriginal culture and experience.
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A groundbreaking collection of work from some of the great Australian Aboriginal writers, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature offers a
Launch of The Solemn Lantern Maker by Merlinda BobisTo be launched by Dr. Susan Hawthorne
Readings Carlton, 29 April, 6:30 pm.
Lecture on Narrative and Politics. University of Melbourne, 28 April, 5:30-6:30 pm, Rand Theatre, Medical Building.
ABOUT ‘THE SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER’ (Pier 9, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2008)
Ten-year old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it is only an American tourist caught in a�
Writers worldwide have translated and recorded the poem June by imprisoned journalist and poet Shi Tao into, at last count, more than 90 languages. The poem is a moving meditation on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, written on June 9, 2004, to coincide with the event’s 15th anniversary.
It has moved via website, from PEN centre to centre, along a route similar to the Olympic torch itinerary, adding new translations as it goes. So far the poem has been to 70