Samuel Wagan Watson
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Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian poet.
Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane, his family is Irish, German, Bundjalung and Birri Gubba. His poetry ranges from observation of everyday experience to the effects of colonisation in a vividly direct, almost tactile, language. Samuel Wagan Watson's first volume, Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight, won the 1999 David Unaipon Award and Smoke Encrypted Whispers the 2005 NSW Premier's Award Book of the Year. His father is the novelist Sam Watson.
[edit] Works
Poetry
- Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight. (UQP, 1999) ISBN 0-7022-3174-6
- Itinerant Blues. (UQP, 2002) ISBN 0-7022-3282-3 reviewed
- Smoke Encrypted Whispers. (UQP, 2004) ISBN 0-7022-3471-0 review
[edit] External links
- Hotel bone at Jacket Magazine
- "Ten poems" with German translations
- Review of Smoke at Australian Humanities Review
[edit] References
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| NAME | Watson, Samuel Wagan |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Indigenous Australian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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