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Davis, Jack. (1992). Black life : poems. St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press
Jack Davis was a 20th-century playwright and poet who was of Indigenous Australian heritage. He was from the Noongar tribe and published the book of poems 'Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia. ' The Australian government included his name in a list of well-known Indigenous Australian writers, along with Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The Davis family moved to Yarloop when Jack was five. (p.6) He remembers walking two kilometres to school with his three older siblings. (p.11) On his first day, an older boy named Lennie stuck a pencil in Jack’s back after he refused to give up his sandwich, and he retaliated by punching the boy in the face.
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- Jack Davis 0 Titles. An inaugural Unaipon Award judge, he served as judge on the panel from l988 to l996. A selection of his poetry from Black Life (UQP 1992) features in Fresh Cuttings, the first anthology of UQP Black Australian Writing, due for release in October 2003.
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Davis, Jack. Black life : poems / Jack Davis University of Queensland Press St Lucia, Qld 1992
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Davis, Jack. 1992, Black life : poems / Jack Davis University of Queensland Press St Lucia, Qld
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Bib ID | 1566259 | |
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Format | Book, Online - Google Books | |
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Description | St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1992 xii, 89 p. ; 20 cm. | |
ISBN | 070222247X (paperback) | |
Series | UQP black Australian writers. | |
Summary | Collection of poems, of celebration, introspection and lament. | |
Subjects | Aboriginal Australians -- Poetry. | Australian literature -- 20th century. | Australian literature -- Aboriginal authors. | Australian poetry. | Literature and stories - Poetry. | Australia. |
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Jack DavisAM,BEM (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century playwright and poet, and an Indigenous rights campaigner. He was born in Western Australia, in Perth, and lived in Fremantle towards the end of his life. He was of the AboriginalNoongar people, and much of his work dealt with the Indigenous Australian experience.
Although Davis composed many of his poems while working as a stockman in the Gascoyne in his twenties, his first volume of poetry was not published until 1970.[1] He has been referred to as the twentieth century's Aboriginal Poet Laureate, and many of his plays are on Australian school syllabuses.
Jack Davis
Davis received the Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) in 1976,[2] and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1985.[3]
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Works[edit]
Black Life Poems Jack Davis Jr
Plays[edit]
- Kullark (1972)
- The Dreamers (1982)
- No Sugar (1985)
- Honeyspot (1985)
- Moorli and the Leprechaun (1986)
- Burungin (1988)
- Plays from Black Australia (1989)
- In your Town (1990)
Jack Davis Poet
Poetry[edit]
- The First-born and other poems (1970)
- The Black Tracker (1970)
- Jagardoo : Poems from Aboriginal Australia (1978)
- John Pat and Other Poems (1988) Publisher Dent Australia ISBN0-86770-079-3
- Black Life : poems (1992)
Black Life Poems Jack Davis Son
Other works[edit]
- Jack Davis : A life-story (1988)
- A Boy's Life (1991)
- Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings (1992)http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/147/Paperbark-%20A%20Collection%20Of%20Black%20Australian%20Writing
References[edit]
Black Life Poems Jack Davis Death
- ^'MAGAZINE: BOOKS'. The Canberra Times. 63 (19, 443). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 31 December 1988. p. 17. Retrieved 13 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^'Jack Davis'. honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^'Jack Leonard Davis'. honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
Jack Davis Artwork
External links[edit]
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