Nandi Chinna

Swamp

Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain

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Produktbeschreibung

Nandi Chinna's poems inspired by the Swan Coastal Plain are personal, social and historic - seeking to reinscribe the rich diversity and history that exists beneath the current landscape of Perth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fremantle Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781922089489
• ISBN-10: 1922089486
• Artikelnr.: 41370059

Autorenporträt

Nandi Chinna works as a Research Consultant, Community Arts Facilitator and poet. She was born on Kaurna country in Adelaide and currently lives and works on Bunuba lands in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and on Noongar Country in the southwest of WA. Nandi uses mindfulness and meditation, slow walking and immersion in nature to facilitate creative writing. For the last seven years, Nandi has worked with First Nations people on poetry projects about rivers, wetlands and homelands. Most recently, Nandi collaborated with Nyikina Elder Professor Anne Poelina - a Guardian of Martuwarra Fitzroy River - on a poetry project focusing on the Martuwarra River. She is the author of four poetry collections. Her poetry book The Future Keepers was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2020 and was highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Prize in 2019. In 2021, Nandi was awarded the Western Australian Premier's Writing Fellowship.