The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss

The Hard Light of Day by Rod MossWritten over the course of 25 years, this book is a candidly brutal and groundbreaking account of race relationships and friendships in the central Australian town of Alice Springs. In the early 1980s, artist Rod Moss arrived to teach painting in Alice Springs and soon was adopted as a family member by the local Arrernte people. Keeping a journal during the next three decades, he chronicled his experiences as he taught, struggled to paint, raised his

Godfrey has created a deeply intimate letter to their experience of the everyday through an autobiography of sultry poetry

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many Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders and commentators still believe that working with the state is the only viable option

One brave girl

they are expressed simply and with a sense of significance in nature which reminds one of the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal

and living a life in tune with the environment

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She currently lives in South Australia

Their relationship has always had its ups and downs

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they tell the stories of their families