Lionel Fogarty
About
Lionel G. Fogarty is a Yugambeh man and was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s, he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths in custody. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including the award-winning Connection Requital, Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the land, and Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future).
Projects
- Balund-a 2012
- Balund-a 2016
- Balund-a 2017
- Balund-a 2018
- Bonalbo Central School, NSW
- Clubs & Societies
- Guwayu – For All Times
- Lyrikline Collaboration
- South Coast Correctional Centre 2012
- Tabulum Public School, NSW
- TEDx Sydney
- Tennant Creek Writers' Camp
- The Aboriginal Writers' Retreat
- The Disappearing
- The Poet's Life Works
- Unlocked
Poems
Audio
- Balund-a Song
- Vote no? Ho
- Sort Of Sorry
- Saints Are Homeless
- Non-Pain In Rain
- 1967 Encouraged The Right Vote Now?
- Lionel Fogarty reads 'Appearance Shadows'