Notes on the poems
(1) ‘Municipal Gum’, Kath Walker, (originally published in The Dawn Is at Hand, Jacaranda Press, Milton, 1966), My People, Jacaranda Press, Milton, 1970: 49.
(2) ‘Community Rain Song’, Walker, 1970: 60.
(3) ‘The Food Gatherers’, Walker, 1970: 38.
(4) ‘Ecology’, Lionel Fogarty, Yoogum Yoogum, Penguin, Ringwood, 1982: 91.
(5) ‘Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive’, Fogarty, 1982: 2.
(6) ‘Day Flight’, Jack Davis, The First Born and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, Ferntree Gully, 1983/1990: 9.
(7) ‘Land’, Jack Davis, John Pat and Other Poems, Dent, Ferntree Gully, 1988: 32.
(8) ‘Soul’, Davis, 1988: 27.
(9) ‘The Executioner’, Davis, 1988: 21.
(10) ‘Red Gum and I’, Jack Davis, The First Born and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, Ferntree Gully, 1983/1990: 38.