ON FINDING CHARLOTTE IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORD: JUDITH CRISPIN

This Indigenous prose poem reflects upon the complex issue of identity and finding ancestors. The lyrical beauty of the language gently opens out the poignant picture of an Aboriginal great grandmother with her scarred skin and possum cloak. It is a poem about a meeting across boundaries of space and time, weighted with the erasure of identity and song lines, of a legacy of broken families, racism and suddenly, a discovery.

Read On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record here

Judith Nangala Crispin is a poet and visual artist, of Bpangerang descent, currently poetry editor of The Canberra Times. She lives in a farmhouse near Lake George with her family, two cats, a fat labrador and a dingo rescued from the desert. Judith has two published collections of poems, The Myrrh-Bearers (Puncher & Wattmann, 2015), and The Lumen Seed (Daylight Books, 2017).


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