#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Due to this event going live later than expected, it is now available to view until 16 July 2021.
Fire Front is a groundbreaking anthology of poetry and essays from leading Aboriginal writers and poets. Join some of the rising stars in Indigenous storytelling as they challenge and subvert the English Language and the poetic forms and traditions of the West.
#Artists
Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie/Koorie poet, researcher and the co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her work has been awarded the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR is forthcoming with the University of Queensland Press. Born and raised in Dharug country she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.
Alison Whittaker
Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi multitasker. Between 2017–2018, she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Law School, where she was named the Dean’s Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law. Alison is a Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute. Her debut poetry collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire, was awarded the State Library of Queensland’s black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship in 2015. Her latest book, Blakwork, was published in 2018. Alison was the co-winner of the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for Many Girls White Linen. Most recently, she was the Indigenous Poet-In-Residence for the 2018 Queensland Poetry Festival.
Elizabeth Walker
Kgiyarrah, better known as Elizabeth Walker is a Nunakal (Noonuccal), Ngugi and Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka nation off the coast of Meanjin (Brisbane). Inspired by her late great-grandmother Oodgeroo Noonuccal to use writing as a method of expression from a young age, her poetry reflects the critical relationships and connections between Aboriginal people, culture, country and kin.
