Poetic City - Us Mob Writing - For Our Elders

Us Mob Writing members will share poetry to celebrate NAIDOC week. This year’s theme is ‘For our Elders’.

Us Mob Writing (UMW) group is made up of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander poets, writers and storytellers based in Canberra and the surrounding areas.  Our members past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies and autobiographies. UMW group has included major national and international literary award winners, a national literary awards judge, and multiple nationally and internationally published, performed and produced writers, including winners of the David Unaipon award.

Member’s poetry and prose have been published in many journals and anthologies nationally and internationally, including in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. Their work has been translated in French, Korean, Bengali, Dutch and other non-English speaking languages.

They have previously published By Close of Business a poetry anthology in 2013.  In 2017 they launched Too Deadly: Our Voice, Our Way, Our Business. UMW members continually promote and showcase First Nations Australia poetry, nationally and internationally.