Ken Canning/Burraga Gutya, Yimbama Cambridge University Poetry Festival

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Ken Canning/Burraga Gutya, Yimbama Cambridge University Poetry FestivalYimbama is the second collection by Indigenous Australian poet Ken Canning, also known as Burraga Gutya. Canning is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Indigenous Australian activism. The poems collected here offer an unflinching examination of the lasting damage done to Indigenous Australia by European colonization and the continuing political struggle. As unflinching and uncompromising these poems are in their protest and dissent, love for