My People / Oodgeroo 3rd edition

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

A collection of poems that constitutes a provocative and emotional plea for justice for Australian Aborigines – First published as an anthology of the then Kath Walker – Now republished as the work of Oodgeroo – Poems on prejudice – Poetry themes.

This is the third edition of ‘My People’, but the first to bear the name Oodgeroo, formerly known as Kath Walker. Oodgeroo’s writing has a unique place in Australian literature. She described it herself as pure propaganda and not the best but the best selling. But it is more than that. Not only is it a provocative and emotional plea for the justice that is still to come for Australian Aborigines, but when her poetry was first published in the sixties it began a new phase in the communication between peoples in Australia.

• viii, 120 p. ; 23 cm. #190425

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Literature and stories – Authors – Poetry
  • History – Biographies – Indigenous
  • Literature and stories – Poetry

  • • Australian poetry
    • Aboriginal Australians — Poetry