She Woke & Rose Indigenous Australian literature language workers and those Yamaji

language workers and those Yamaji who have been and remain generous in passing on cultural knowledge

riff off the political words of others

Yet letters from that mother to her teenage daughter – me – remained protected in my red life-journey suitcase

She would send me out to play with them and always insisted ‘make sure you come back’

I was uncovering layers of meaning beneath the familiar

She Woke & Rose Indigenous Australian literature language workers and those YamajiRead Maria Takolander's introduction to She Woke & Rose. ISBN: 9780994259660 She Woke & Roseis an obsession with interiors, an attempt to forge openings, to merge letters as means of release, slowly, slowly feels the longing, the fractures and the loss. When I state myself, as the Representative of the Verse it does not mean me but a supposed person, Emily Dickinson reveals. Here are multiple voices and personas rising and falling after their