Holocaust Island by Graeme Dixon
A visceral collection of poems that bears witness to the devastations of colonisation in Australia and the lived experience of Aboriginal incarceration and dispossession. The voice moves between personal memory and political indictment, evoking prison cells, broken families, and haunted landscapes while asserting Country, kinship, and cultural survival. Stark imagery and plainspoken lyricism expose systemic racism and intergenerational trauma, yet the work also insists on resilience, dignity, and the possibility of renewal.
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- Published
- 1990
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- Australian
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- English
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