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- 1960s-1970s (Creation)
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20 poems, 7 short stories
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The original folder had the title 'Unpublished poems and stories, copies only, for America'. It contains a list of stories and poems (2 copies) with handwritten details for Kath Walker. The poems: ‘Blue Crane’, ‘Mangrove Bird’, ‘Minjerriba’, ‘Butcher Bird’, ‘Moongalba Peacocks’, ‘Credit and Loss’, ‘The Golden Voice’ (2 drafts), ‘Oration’, ‘Oh Trugganner’, ‘Papua New Guinea’, ‘Bluff Mountain’, ‘Little Bean’, ‘Hari Sastra’, ‘Iban Longhouse’, ‘Yussef (Hi-jacker)’ (2 drafts, along with a typed paragraph summary by Kath Walker about the context in which the poem was written), ‘Commonplace’, ‘Exile’, ‘Grey Gum’, and ‘Sister Poet’. An extra poem, not on the list is included: 'Son of son of mine' (2 drafts). Short stories: ‘Wail Rock’, ‘No horses for a month’, ‘Ole Mick’, ‘The Bunyip’, ‘Black Jimmy's Crime’, ‘We Look after our own’, and an untitled story, handwritten, that begins with the line, ‘I feared old Kindarra’.
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- English
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Box 1, Folder 5
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Prior to rearrangement in March 2020, this was housed in Box 27.
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Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 02-Sep-2024. Created, Linda Justo 26-Feb-2020