Breathe life into these Wiradjuri words by reading them aloud. From the pages of The Yield, here are five of Poppy’s dictionary entries and associated stories. To celebrate Tara June Winch’s ode to the power of language, we’re presenting one Wiradjuri word a day in the lead up to publication. Every narrative is interwoven in space and time – every detail irrevocably connected to what was and what will eventually come to be. ‘The dictionary is not just words,’ he writes, ‘there are little stories in those pages too.’ The words he assembles are embedded with stories of past, present and future. Peppered throughout the text are the personal Wiradjuri-language dictionary entries of Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi. It’s fitting, then, that the book be published in the lead-up to NAIDOC Week 2019, the International Year of Indigenous Languages. In the spaces between these stories there are profound reminders of the importance of language and storytelling to understanding identity. Interlaced narratives of people and place combine within Tara June Winch’s The Yield.
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