Wed, 20 Mar
|Mogendoura
Literary Lunch with Julie Janson
Join us for a literary lunch with local author and poet Julie Janson
Time & Location
20 Mar 2024, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Mogendoura, 189 Hawdons Rd, Mogendoura NSW 2537, Australia
About the event
Join us for a literary lunch with local author and poet Julie Janson featuring her latest book, Compassion. In discussion with indigenous poet Judith Crispin at the beautiful Mogendoura Farm.
Wednesday the 20th of March 12pm - 2pm. $30 for a light lunch, tea and coffee and author discussion and book signing.
Bookings essential call 4474 2242.
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’
From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion continues Julie Janson’s emotional and intense literary exploration of the complex and dangerous lives of Aboriginal women during the 1800s in colonial New South Wales, which she began in Benevolence as a counter narrative to colonial history in Australian literature.
Compassion is the dramatised life story of one of Julie Janson’s ancestors who went on trial for stealing livestock in New South Wales, and it is an exciting and violent story of anti-colonial revenge and roaming adventure. A gripping fictive account of Aboriginal life in the 1800s, Compassion follows the life of Duringah, AKA Nell James, the outlaw daughter of the Darug hero of Benevolence, Muraging.