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Holocaust Island

Holocaust Island

First Nations Classics

by Graeme Dixon and Ali Cobby Eckermann
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/05/2023
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Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.

Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon's poems address contemporary and controversial issues - from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers - and are as relevant today as when his book was first published. This dynamic collection is threaded with poems of spirited humour and sharp satire. Dixon's powerful voice rings out loud and clear.

ISBN:
9780702266034
9780702266034
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-05-2023
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
108
Dimensions (mm):
196x129x11mm
Weight:
0.09kg
Graeme Dixon

Graeme Dixon (1955-2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years.

His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989.

Ali Cobby Eckermann

Ali Cobby Eckermann is the winner of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry. Her writing reflects her journey to reconnect with her Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha family.

Her first verse novel, "His Father's Eyes," was published in 2011. "Ruby Moonlight," her second verse novel, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2013.

In 2014, Ali was the first Indigenous Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. Her most recent collection of poetry is "Inside My Mother,

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