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.