Ruby Moonlight
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A verse novel that centres around the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880. Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
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- ISBN: 9781921248511
- Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Pub date: 01.05.12
- RRP: $34.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around the world. Her poetry collections include little bit long time and the award-winning collection Inside My Mother. Her verse novels are His Father s Eyes and Ruby Moonlight, which won the inaugural black&write! Indigenous fellowship, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, a Deadly Award and was named the NSW Premier s Literary Award Book of the Year. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Australia s Poetry Ambassador, and in 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University.
She describes herself as a dreamer, a gardener, with deep respect for her journey thus far.Other books by the author
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