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Photo of Lionel Fogarty by Jacqueline Mittelman
Photo copyright © Jacqueline Mittleman, courtesy Hyland House publishers
Lionel Fogarty (b.1958) was born at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, in the semi-tropical northern Australian state of Queensland. Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, particularly in southern Queensland, from the Land Rights movement to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services to black deaths in custody. He is also an Australian poet who has opened up the new space of black Australian post-surrealist writing and done much to reformulate our understanding of poetic discourse and its roles in both black and white communities.
Material available on this site:
Lionel Fogarty in conversation with Philip Mead. This interview took place in Brisbane, Australia, at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service, on Armistice Day, 11 November, 1994. It is about 18 printed pages long.
Sabina Hopfer: Re-reading Lionel Fogarty: An attempt to feel into texts speaking of decolonisation. This piece is 6,800 words or about twelve printed pages long.
A selection of poems from Lionel Fogarty’s most recent (2005) publication, Minyung Woolah Binnung — What Saying Says. Southport, QLD: Keeaira Press, 2004. http://www.kpress.com.au/:
Activists non significants / Bina open hearts precedents / Chapel communists / Embassy, page 1 / Embassy, page 2 / Embassy, page 3 / Embassy, page 4 / Evil spurting forward / Kuranda revitalised / Mabo decision was... / Maidens keeper
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