#AusReadingMonth2020 Ruby Moonlight (poetry)
- Title: Ruby Moonlight
- Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Genre: poetry
- Published: 2012
- List of Challenges 2020
- Monthly reading plan
- Bingo card: SA
- #AusReadingMonth2020 @Bronasbooks
- #AWW2020 @AustralianWomenWriters
Absolute gem !! …64 pages, you can read it in 30 min, time well spent!
- WINNER – 2012 Indigenous Writing Fellowship. The black&write!
- Writing Fellowships are offered annually to two Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers
- WINNER – 2012 Deadly Award Outstanding Achievement in Literature
- WINNER – 2013 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and
- WINNER – 2013 Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards
Introduction:
- A verse novel that centers around the impact of colonization
- in mid-north South Australia around 1880.
- Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where
- she befriends an Irishman trapper.
- The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome
- by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unraveling of events,
- …is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman.
- The natural world is richly observed and
- Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
Conclusion:
- This poem (novel in verse) is a short read
- …but don’t confuse length and density.
- Ruby Moonlight was a delight to read!
- Ms Eckermann has used all her poetic skills that make a poem
- that is a a joy to read out loud: sounds linked by
- …alliteration, internal vowels and final consonants.
- I read this poem to my cat…and he loved it!
- The characters come to life in simple language
- …and a love story you will not forget.
- #MustRead
- Ruby Moonlight (the lubra, aboriginal woman)
- Miner Jack
- Spear maker
- The old dancer and two warriors
- The mob
- Kuman
- Man with no music
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