Altjeringa And Other Aboriginal Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
From the deep spiritual heart of Australia's ancient landscape comes Altjeringa and Other Aboriginal Poems, a profound collection that channels the voices, visions, and dreamings of Indigenous Australian culture into verse. Roland Robinson, one of Australia's most celebrated nature and lyric poets, presents a work that is part transcription, part artistic reimagining — drawing directly from the oral traditions, myths, and ceremonial knowledge shared with him by Aboriginal elders and storytellers across decades of close relationship and listening. The collection sits at a rare and powerful intersection of poetry and ethnography, grounding itself in the Altjeringa — the Arrernte concept of the Dreaming, that sacred and timeless dimension in which ancestors shaped the world. Robinson's verse is spare yet luminous, reverential without being ornamental, giving form to stories that stretch back thousands of years. For readers seeking an authentic poetic engagement with one of the world's oldest living cultures, this volume remains a quietly essential and deeply affecting work — one that asks whether any landscape can truly be known without first learning to hear its oldest songs.
Author: Roland Robinson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, A.H. & A.W. Reed
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
From the deep spiritual heart of Australia's ancient landscape comes Altjeringa and Other Aboriginal Poems, a profound collection that channels the voices, visions, and dreamings of Indigenous Australian culture into verse. Roland Robinson, one of Australia's most celebrated nature and lyric poets, presents a work that is part transcription, part artistic reimagining — drawing directly from the oral traditions, myths, and ceremonial knowledge shared with him by Aboriginal elders and storytellers across decades of close relationship and listening. The collection sits at a rare and powerful intersection of poetry and ethnography, grounding itself in the Altjeringa — the Arrernte concept of the Dreaming, that sacred and timeless dimension in which ancestors shaped the world. Robinson's verse is spare yet luminous, reverential without being ornamental, giving form to stories that stretch back thousands of years. For readers seeking an authentic poetic engagement with one of the world's oldest living cultures, this volume remains a quietly essential and deeply affecting work — one that asks whether any landscape can truly be known without first learning to hear its oldest songs.