Ruby Moonlight (Flood Editions) - Softcover

Eckermann, Ali Cobby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990340724 ISBN 13: 9780990340720

Publisher: Flood Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Through a series of compact lyrics, Ali Cobby Eckermann's Ruby Moonlight tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization.

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About the Author

Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around the world. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry including Ruby Moonlight, published by Magabala Books in Australia in 2012 and Flood Editions in North America in 2015. It was named the New South Wales Book of the Year and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, among other awards. She also published a memoir, Too Afraid to Cry, in 2012. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Australia's Poetry Ambassador, and in 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University. She describes herself as "a dreamer, a gardener, a reader and a nomad."

From the Back Cover

"These innovative poems take up traditional narrative voices, bringing past conflicts vividly to life with short lines that are lucid, refined, and luminous. Colonialism and survival are set against the natural world, love, and the desire for human engagement. The writing is delicate yet strong, the tone is pitched so well the reader is not distracted by the agile technique that carries the narrative forward." Judges' citation, New South Wales Book of the Year Award

Edition details

• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990340724
• ISBN 13: 9780990340720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96