1. Books in Relation to Poetry
By Jeanne Mrugacz

2. Poem Book
• Soon you will take your • Morgan family going to
rightful place (Noonuccal Corunna Downs Station
ln. 3) • Morgan family learning
• To your birthright all too about Aboriginal roots
long delayed (Noonuccal
ln. 10)

3. Poem Book
• Eagerly we must learn to • Grog and White people
change, / Learn new things
needs we never wanted, / • Billy feeling he belongs
New compulsions never with the Aborigines
needed, / The price of
survival. (Noonuccal 6-9)
• We are the happiest /
Among our own people
(Noonuccal 14&15)

4. Poem Book
• Notice of estate agent • Dump
reads: ‘Rubbish May Be • Storm and Leaving
Tipped Here’. / Now if half
covers the traces of the
old bora ring (Noonuccal
6&7)
• And we are going
(Noonuccal 26)

5. Poem Book
• Let us forget the hurt, / • Forgiving relationship
Join hands and reach / between Kerewin, Joe,
with hearts that yearn and Simon
(Davis 15-17) • Functioning better as
• The past is done. / Let us three than individuals
stand together, / Wide and
tall / And God will smile
upon us each (Davis 20-
14)

6. • Heiss, Anita, and Peter Minter, ed. Anthology of
Australian Aboriginal Literature. Montreal & Kingston:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 43-46, 59-60.
Print.
• Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. 1st ed. New York:
Penguin, 1986. Print.
• Morgan, Sally. My Place. Western Australia: Fremantle
Arts Center Press, 1987. Print.
• Scott, Kim. True Country. Western Australia: Fremantle
Press, 2010. Print.
• Wright, Alexis. Carpentaria. Reprint Edition. New York:
Atria Books, 2010. Print.