Acknowledgements
Profound thanks to all estates and family members who have facilitated the publication of poems herein. And thanks to all the poets themselves, to whom this anthology is dedicated. Poetry is as much about community as the individual poet, and we hope all poets feel they are in good company. We believe they are.
We’d like to acknowledge the groundbreaking work William Grono did when preparing his anthologies of Western Australian literature, especially Margins: A West Coast Selection 1829−1988. Even returning to original sources such as colonial newspapers and, later, early book publications in Western Australia, it becomes clear that Bill was immensely thorough and inevitably selected the best work of the poets he anthologised. We hope we have come up with a few alternatives he might find interesting, and we sometimes concentrated on different aspects of a poet’s work, but we wish to state our admiration and appreciation for his work. Thanks, Bill. All anthologies of Western Australian poetry owe much to you! We’d also like to acknowledge the use of certain biographical notes from Margins.
Special thanks to Dennis Haskell who generously read through the introduction and helped us make contact with various poets or their families. Glen Phillips was also very helpful in connecting us with poets or their family representatives.
AustLit have been generous in their allowing us to use their biographical notes and information to fill in gaps, and we are pleased that some of the information acquired during this biographical collating process will feed back to AustLit. This is the way these things should work. Thanks too to those poets who provided their own biographical notes.
The biographical notes for the Ngarla Song contributors come from Ngarla Songs (FACP, 2003). Thanks also to Alexander Brown and Brian Geytenbeek, and, of course, to community and the singers themselves.
Special thanks to Frank Rijavec of Juluwarlu Group, along with the Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, Jason Lee, Senior Linguist, Wangka Maya Pilbara Language Centre, and other centre members. Also to the work of C.G. von Brandenstein and A.P. Thomas, thanks.
Further thanks to the libraries of Curtin University and UWA, with particular thanks to Toby Burrows and the UWA Scholars Centre for allowing access to material collected by John Kinsella for the Western Australian Writing: An On-line Anthology. Thank you to Georgia Richter at Fremantle Press and to the interns who gave many good hours to this volume: Blake Innes, Zoe Barnard, Amanda Frost, and Jordana Hehir. Thanks to Lucy Dougan, Ralph James, Clint Bracknell, and Kim Scott for their support, wisdom and generosity. And thanks to anyone else we have inadvertently missed thanking — all support given has been greatly appreciated!
Finally, thanks to Curtin University and the Faculty of Humanities for their generous support of this project.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
The Fremantle Press anthology of Western Australian poetry
John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan editors; plus 132 additional names.
ISBN: 9781925164732 (epub)
Australian poetry—Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australian poetry.
Anthologies
Other Creators/Contributors:
Kinsella, John, 1963− editor.
Ryan, Tracy, 1964− editor.
Dewey Number: A821.308
Fremantle Press is supported by the State Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts.
Publication of this title was assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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