For the first of my posts during Indigenous Literature Week at ANZ LitLovers, I’ve decided to feature poetry, but as I’m not confident about reviewing poetry, I’ve decided that I’ll serve my readers best by providing a link to the best of reviews of this lovely new collection of poems by Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Descended from the Yankunytjatjara language group, Ali Cobby Eckermann was born in 1963, in the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home in Brighton South Australia. Run by the Methodist Church from 1954 to 1976, it was an institution for single mothers and their babies, and for children deemed to be in need of care and protection. In 2011, the Kate Cocks Home was one of those included in the Uniting Church Apology to mothers who were forced to give up their children for adoption. Ali Cobby Eckerman was one of those children: taken from her mother, adopted out, and not reunited with her mother, Yankunytjatjara woman Audrey Cobby, until three decades later.

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/07/03/inside-my-mother-poetry-by-ali-cobby-eckerma... ( )

https://shawjonathan.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/ali-cobby-eckermanns-inside-my-mot... ( )