{"product_id":"ali-cobby-eckermann-love-dreaming-other-poems","title":"Ali Cobby Eckermann, Love dreaming \u0026 other poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove dreaming \u0026amp; other poems \u003c\/em\u003eCobby Eckermann bears witness to a deep commitment to her traditional kin, culture and language as she tells the story of her search for her family on the traditional Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha lands in the north west of South Australia. At the same time, she lays bare the ongoing effects of governmental policy and paternalism on Australia’s indigenous peoples. Engaging with events around Alice Springs, these poems give firsthand witness to the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response by the Federal Government, commonly known as The Intervention, and its ongoing effects on regional and remote Indigenous communities. These poems lay open the complexity of the internal conflict felt among Aboriginal people today, as they constantly need to adjust to contemporary Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCobby Eckermann notes, ‘My times in the desert are my happiest, and the soft blanket felt when my traditional language is spoken around me, is a feeling of pure love.’ This is a collection by one of Indigenous Australian poetry’s most vital new voices, sung with two eyes wide open to the present reality without fear or prejudice, with an overflowing love and care for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese are the offerings of a writer who has journeyed with great determination through apparently irretrievable loss, through chaos, disintegration and desolation, who has harvested the gifts of insight and emotional and spiritual intelligence and compassion, and who now reveals these insights to the eyes and ears of others through lucid images and punchy language.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerry Whitebeach\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAli Cobby Eckermann\u003c\/strong\u003e has enjoyed huge success with her first collection of poetry \u003cem\u003elittle bit long time \u003c\/em\u003e(Australian Poetry Centre, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eKami\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2010).  Her poetry reflects her journey to reconnect with her Yankunytjatjara \/ Kokatha family. Her first verse novel \u003cem\u003eHis Father’s Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Her second verse novel \u003cem\u003eRuby Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e won the inaugural \u003cem\u003ekuril dhagun\u003c\/em\u003e National Manuscript Editing Award and will be published by Magabala Books in 2012. She established an Aboriginal Writers Retreat at her home in Koolunga, and advocates strongly for grassroots Aboriginal voices to be heard through literature. She has lived most of her adult life in Australia’s Northern Territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAli Cobby Eckermann, \u003cem\u003eLove dreaming \u0026amp; other poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e64pp.2012. ISBN 978-1-922181-05-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/zhox\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":240978551,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/ACE_LoveDreaming.jpg?v=1348360051","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/fr\/products\/ali-cobby-eckermann-love-dreaming-other-poems","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}