- UQFL84-Series A-Subseries 1-File 1
- File
- ca 1960s-ca1970s
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
The original folder was titled 'Poems unpublished' and has a contents listing by Kath Walker. Some poems have been published since the author created this file. It contains 34 poems, some with copies or drafts. The poems are:
- 'I'm Not’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Westerlies’ (On the back of ‘The glass island’ by Laurie Neill);
- ‘Butcher Bird’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Hari Sastra’ (3 handwritten drafts);
- ‘Little Bean’ (2 drafts, one handwritten, with another poem on the back, 'Woman's Lament');
- ‘Oration’ (5 drafts);
- ‘Full Moon’ (6 drafts);
- ‘Mangrove Bird’ (7 drafts);
- ‘Exhausted’ (2 drafts);
- ‘Wedding Song’ (6 drafts);
- ‘Dead Wood’ (6 drafts);
- ‘Hercules’ (2 drafts);
- ‘Child of Two Races’ (2 drafts);
- ‘No Place to Go’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Roeburn Lament’ (2 drafts);
- ‘Blue Crane’ (handwritten);
- ‘Will I?’ (3 drafts);
- ‘Minjerriba’ (5 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘To a Policeman’ (3 drafts);
- ‘Noises’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Credit and Loss’ (4 drafts);
- ‘Furry Friend’ (4 drafts);
- ‘Can you?’ (6 drafts);
- ‘Lovers Quarrel’ (4 drafts);
- ‘Yussef’ (6 drafts, two handwritten, one of which is written on a British airways waste disposal bag with an accompanying letter);
- ‘Commonplace’ (4 drafts, one a photocopied handwritten draft);
- ‘The Fisherman (for Bill Mewett’ (3 drafts);
- ‘Grey Gum’;
- ‘Civilised Man’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Sunrise over Stradbroke’ (3 drafts);
- ‘Poets (for Jack Davis)’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Black Prostitute’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
- ‘Sister Poet (for Judith Wright)’ (1 draft, 1 carbon copy);
- ‘Iban Long house’ (3 drafts, one handwritten).