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River’s flow

A Martuwarra collaboration
by
July 2024, no. 466

Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant by Nandi Chinna and Anne Poelina

Fremantle Press, $29.99 pb, 112 pp

River’s flow

A Martuwarra collaboration
by
July 2024, no. 466

In her fifth full-length poetry collection, Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant, Nandi Chinna continues to write about her engagement with the natural world. Authored in collaboration with Wagaba Nyikina Warrwa Elder, Anne Poelina, this book sees her move north and west into the Kimberley. This is where the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) runs through Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Nyikina, Walmajarri, and Wangkatjungka Country. It is a place that poetry readers will recognise from the geographically proximate classic Reading the Country (1984) by Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke, and Krim Bentarrak, Ngarla Songs (2003) by Alexander Brown and Brian Geytenbeek, and the ethnopoetic George Dyungayan’s Bulu Line (2014), edited by Stuart Cooke. With that in mind, Chinna’s Kimberley is a place that is remote for many readers, but not entirely unknown.

Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant

Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant

by Nandi Chinna and Anne Poelina

Fremantle Press, $29.99 pb, 112 pp

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