Harvest Lingo

Harvest LingoHarvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australias foremost poets, and this collection displays all of the urgency, energy and linguistic audacity for which Fogarty is known. At the centre of the collection is a series of poems written in

and suddenly she is having to make sense of her past in a way she would never have imagined

Sharp and tender

it is clear that changes must be made

Will she be able to keep her identity a secret and find Lady Cecily

This complicated case has Enola hunting down clues all over London until she finally discovers the awful truth: Lady Cecily is being held prisoner

They wrote Reading Together with their mums

Drs Hallowell and Ratey

Spanning four generations

to belong in Australia

Both Aboriginal people with a profound connection to country and residents of more recent arrival

yet shun foods that grew here before white settlers arrived

he had the settlers in thrall for twelve years