Timmah Ball

Timmah Ball is nonfiction writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage. In 2016 she won the Westerly magazine Patricia Hackett Prize, and her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals.

All essays by Timmah Ball

Review: Timmah Ballon First Nations poetry
  • Guwayu – For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poems by Jeanine Leane (ed.)
    commissioned by Red Room Poetry     Magabala Books
    166pp
    Published August 2020
    ISBN 9781925936544

Speaking back in Guwayu – For All Times

‘Blak anthologies unsettle Australian literary whiteness, which has often marginalised, and categorised First Nations work through stereotypes, assuming it falls into narratives of protest or disadvantage. Guwayu pushes against this, creating what Leane terms ‘a radical intervention in Aboriginal publishing for its breadth of representation, diversity of language, and drafting and editing protocols’. And while a groundswell of Blak anthologies are emerging, there’s a continued need to push Blak practice further, evident in the uneven way this work is often perceived by the industry.’
Oct. 2020 • • •