Eclipse

by Roberta B. Sykes

Author winner of the Australian Human Rights Medal.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes (b. 1943) is an Australian poet and author. Although she is the daughter of a white Australian mother and an African-American father, she has always identified as, and until recently was accepted as, an indigenous Australian. She has been a life-long campaigner for indigenous land rights, as well as human rights and women's rights.Awards and nominations

1982: Patricia Weickert Black Writers Award
1994: Australian Human Rights Medal
1997: Age Book of the Year for Snake Cradle
1998: National Biography Award for Snake Cradle
1998: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award for Snake Cradle

Bibliography

Love Poems and other Revolutionary Actions (Cammeray: The Saturday Centre, 1979)
Mum Shirl: An Autobiography (with Colleen Shirley Perry) (Melbourne, 1981)
Love Poems and other Revolutionary Actions (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989) ISBN 0-7022-2173-2
Eclipse. (Queensland, Australia: Univ of Queensland Press, 1996) ISBN 0-7022-2848-6
Incentive, Achievement and Community (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1986)
Black Majority (Hawthorn, Australia: Hudson, 1989) ISBN 0-949873-25-X
Murawina: Australian Women of High Achievement (Sydney: Doubleday, 1993) ISBN 0-86824-436-8
Snake Cradle (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997) ISBN 1-86448-513-2
Snake Dancing (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998) ISBN 1-86448-513-2
Snake Circle (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000) ISBN 1-86508-335-6

External links

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/china... for an analysis of the controversy about her identity.

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Favourite poems in this collection were 'Identities' and 'Post-Colonial Fictions'