"The Great Book" Volume 1, 1987-1999

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Phase-Box 1 (MS Acc22.060)

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Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain names, descriptions and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.

This item contains images of Yolŋu artist Marmburra Wananumba Banduk Marika AO and husband Mark Alderton. Also includes newspaper article on Barbara Chisholm, an Indigenous woman who claimed to be the great-grandaughter of King Edward VIII.

Visual scrapbook containing a combination of printed postcards, clippings - both complete and fragments - printed versions of poems, brief news items, admission tickets, flags of the world, classified advertisements, letters to the editor, cartoons, two photographs of Les Murray, Murray family photographs or prints from around Bunyah of various sizes; many annotated by Les Murray, both factually or to add something to the item. There is no explanation of the motives or methods behind the assembling. Estimated 1,250 images or texts in this volume.

From the introduction to 'Continuous Creation' a posthumous publication of Les Murray's works: "three massive volumes of the project Les referred to … as his hobby: 'I collect images, postcards, photos, bits of verse, weird newspaper snippets, labels. They all go into big old-style ledger books to which Clare gave the title, The Great Book', pronounced in Scots."

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