Smoke Encrypted Whispers
First Nations Classics
2nd Edition
Published on 4. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7022-6857-1 (ISBN)
Description
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Tony Birch, Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a stunning collection of exhilarating poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties that have become Watson's hallmarks.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
St Lucia
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7022-6857-1 (9780702268571)
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Tony Birch is the author of four novels, five short fiction collections, and two poetry books. In 2022 his book, Dark As Last Night was awarded the Christina Stead Literary Prize and the Steele Rudd Literary Award. The book was also shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. His most recent book is the novel, Women and Children, (UQP 2023). Samuel Wagan Watson hails from the honourable ancestors of the Birra-Gubba, Mununjali, Germanic and Gaelic peoples. His rich collection of published works have won numerous awards including the David Unaipon Award (1999), the New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year (2005), the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (2005), the Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry (2016) and the Patrick White Literary Award (2018). His work has been translated into seven languages, inspired various musical compositions, and has been the subject of film and television productions and visual art projects.