Margo's new book of poetry, Dreaminglines is available in bookstores and online now.
Dreaminglines is an exploration of Central Australia and Indigenous culture through evocative poetry, photos and descriptions.
It is a natural continuation of an earlier book "Journeylines" that was among others presented to Nelson Mandela.
Note about the author:
Margo Birnberg is a freelance journalist, photographer, poet and the author of many books and articles, some of them dealing with the subject of reconciliation.
For the past 40 years she has travelled extensively in Austalia and overseas. With her first husband, two small sons and her father, they met two Aborigines in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia who were still living a way of life that had not changed in thousands of years. For Warri and Yatungka, a Mandjildjarra couple, Margo and her family were the first white people they had encountered.
In the course of her work she co-produced several documentary films which were subsequently shown on television in many European countries.
Her published books are about Aboriginal artists, the environment where they produce their paintings and the beauty of the Australian deserts.
The former president Nelson Mandela, and Rajmohan Gandhi showed appreciation of her work.
Margo is currently working on a book about an Aboriginal ngangkari, a tribal doctor.
Other books by the author:
Journeylines.
What is Aboriginal Art? (fifth reprint)
Aboriginal Artists Dictionary of Biographies.
The Tjulkurra : Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
Anangu, Yapa : Custodians of the land
The publisher, Brumby Sunstate can be contacted here (2023 note, most of the above titles have been sold out):
https://www.brumbysunstate.com.au/contact/
Australia-wide library availability of out of print books(loan or buy), search the National Library of Australia:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/books?keyword=margo%20birnberg