Bitin' back / Vivienne Cleven -- Itinerant blues / Samuel Wagan Watson -- Steam pigs / Melissa Lucashenko -- Dreaming in urban areas - White man approval / Lisa Bellear -- Caprice / Doris Pilkington Garimara -- Holocaust Island / Graeme Dixon -- Plains of promise / Alexis Wright -- Black life / Jack Davis -- Home / Larissa Behrendt -- Skin paintings / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Unbranded / Herb Wharton -- Land window / John Graham -- Her sister's eye / Vivienne Cleven -- Dreaming in urban areas - Come dancin' / Lisa Bellear -- Hard yards / Melissa Lucashenko -- Of muse, meandering and midnight / Samuel Wagan Watson -- Bridge of triangles / John Muk Muk Burke
Summary
As the first anthology of UQP's indigenous-authored books, Fresh Cuttings represents the very best of fiction and poetry publishing from UQP's Black Australian Writing series. An introduction by the editors and a biography of each author is included
Analysis
Australian literature (Australia)
Notes
Includes works by Elizabeth Hodgson (p.147-159). 'Elizabeth Hodgson lives in Wollongong .. Born in 1956 she spent her childhood in Sydney in a State Home for fair-skinned Aboriginal children. She writes about the racism which has permetaed every aspect of her life. Her collection of poems Skin Painting was Highly Commended in the 2002 Unaipon Award." -- Author notes, p.254-255
