Poetry, politics and place : black and white perceptions of landscape in modern Australian poetry 1965-1990
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posted on 1999-01-01, 00:00authored byKelly. Gardiner
Argues that the most influential landscape poetry deals with landscape as an aesthetic concept, and also with the politics of land ownership. Several "landscape poets". Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, have given voice to some of the most compelling social currents in society, and their work has an important place in contemporary political debate.