Review

Fire Front is an ambitious collection of First Nations poetry

By Geoff Page
August 1 2020 - 12:00am
Gomeroi poet and academic from Gunnedah Alison Whittaker. Picture: Supplied
Gomeroi poet and academic from Gunnedah Alison Whittaker. Picture: Supplied
  • Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today, edited by Alison Whittaker. University of Queensland Press. $24.99.

It's been 32 years since Kevin Gilbert's important Penguin anthology, Inside Black Australia. With the possible exception of the poetry in Peter Minter's and Anita Heiss's Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, this new anthology, edited by Alison Whittaker, is the most ambitious attempt to update and/or replace Gilbert's original.

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