Romaine Moreton is a writer of poetry, prose, and film and a descendent of the aboriginal communities of the Goernpil (Stradbroke Island) and the Bundjalung (northern New South Wales). She lives in Katoomba, New South Wales, in the middle of the Blue Mountains, and has made it her task to maintain and cultivate the beliefs and traditions of her ancestors. Her Poems from a Homeland are a testimony to her self-conception: I believe it is important as an Indigenous poet that I create works that are not only accessible in terms of language and imagery to Indigenous audiences, but also pertinent. As a result, the language and themes I do choose to work with have been considered rather confronting and challenging, which I can understand. However, the things I have to say and how I say them are a direct response to the environment in which I have grown up and continue to live in. To create works that do not deal with the morbid and mortal affects of racism for one, and the beauty of Indigenous culture for another, would be for me personally, to produce works that are farcical. Skryť popis