Skin Painting David Unaipon Award Winners Series eBook Elizabeth Hodgson
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Brave, haunting, and evocative, this powerful volume presents its poetry in the form of a memoir. From the poet’s early experiences in an institution and the effect of this on her family to the illustration of her strength and independence as an adult, this biographical collection helps make the Aboriginal experience accessible and resonant. Exploring themes of art, identity, sexuality, and loneliness, this compendium is both universal and intimate.
Skin Painting David Unaipon Award Winners Series eBook Elizabeth Hodgson
This book is a verse memoir, and is well outside my usual reading fare which is firmly speculative in nature. And I loved this book, I’ve never read poetry before that could and was meant to be read by turning each page like a story. Hodgson writes beautifully, her poetry is evocative, reflective, vulnerable and unapologetic. I can’t pick out any particular favourite piece, just that as a whole reading experience it was meaningful and intimate… a glimpse into a life and lives whose voices have been silenced for so long.I’m so glad I read this book, it’s left me thinking and with lots of Feelings about how we as the dominant population treat Indigenous Australian peoples. Although this is a picture somewhat in the past… I know that it is reflective also of present truths and experiences. We’re perpetuating the same painful oppression over again, it’s painfully obvious to me as I turn the pages. I don’t even know how we do better, tiny small steps from my own individual space seem so futile and meaningless, but I have to hope they contribute to something bigger, like a dripping tap. The affirmative, assertive, statement driven final poem brings this book to a triumphant close that looks to a future where equality and respect are possible – the possibility is demanded and that too is fitting.
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Skin Painting David Unaipon Award Winners Series eBook Elizabeth Hodgson Reviews
Elizabeth Hodgson is a Wiradjuri woman, born in the 1950s in Wellington, NSW. Elizabeth Hodgson is a fair-skinned aboriginal woman. Elizabeth Hodgson was taken from her parents at a very young age and placed in a home for fair-skinned Aboriginal children in Sydney.
This collection of poetry is a memoir, providing insight into aspects of Ms Hodgson’s experiences of life. There are poems about her early experiences, about art, about loneliness and about sexuality. Each poem has its own story.
On my first reading, I am haunted by the poem which begins
‘They change my name, I am no longer Elizabeth
Because another girl here has the same name;
Now I must answer to Beth.’
On my second reading, my attention is focussed on
‘These words are my phoenix’
Which ends with
‘Each time I write I am retelling the stories
Uniting past and present.’
I expect a different poem will speak to me on my next reading. Life is like that so many different facets.
I’ve not read a memoir in poetry before. For this memoir it seems perfect. Perhaps it’s the structure which makes it so powerful Ms Hodgson’s choices of words, experiences and events requires me to slow down my reading pace, to carefully visualise what I am being told, to appreciate the context. And all the time I am thinking to myself that Ms Hodgson is about the same age as I am and what very different experiences we have had. There are shared experiences as well, but it’s the differences I am focussing on.
This is a book I need to keep. To revisit and reread. I’ve read all of the words, but not yet absorbed all of the meaning.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
This book is a verse memoir, and is well outside my usual reading fare which is firmly speculative in nature. And I loved this book, I’ve never read poetry before that could and was meant to be read by turning each page like a story. Hodgson writes beautifully, her poetry is evocative, reflective, vulnerable and unapologetic. I can’t pick out any particular favourite piece, just that as a whole reading experience it was meaningful and intimate… a glimpse into a life and lives whose voices have been silenced for so long.
I’m so glad I read this book, it’s left me thinking and with lots of Feelings about how we as the dominant population treat Indigenous Australian peoples. Although this is a picture somewhat in the past… I know that it is reflective also of present truths and experiences. We’re perpetuating the same painful oppression over again, it’s painfully obvious to me as I turn the pages. I don’t even know how we do better, tiny small steps from my own individual space seem so futile and meaningless, but I have to hope they contribute to something bigger, like a dripping tap. The affirmative, assertive, statement driven final poem brings this book to a triumphant close that looks to a future where equality and respect are possible – the possibility is demanded and that too is fitting.
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