Homecoming (poetry collection)

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Homecoming
Homecoming Shiosaki book cover.jpg
Author Elfie Shiosaki
GenrePoetry
Publisher Magabala Books
Publication date
1 April 2021
Publication placeAustralia
Pages152
ISBN 9781925768947

Homecoming is a 2021 poetry collection by Aboriginal Australian poet Elfie Shiosaki. The collection is about the four generations of Noongar women from whom Shiosaki is descended. [1] The collection won the Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer at the 2021 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and the Stella Prize. [1]

Contents

Reception

The collection received positive reviews. In a review in Australian Book Review , Jeanine Leane described Homecoming as a "stellar collection" that "collapse[s] linear colonial time in a seamless weave of past, present, and future interconnected and unresolved, much like the reality of Aboriginal life". [2] A review in Meanjin concurred, praising the non-linearity of time and relationships in Shiosaki's work. [3] In a review in The Saturday Paper , Carissa Lee wrote that the collection nonetheless had "an integrity that honours the many voices it presents". [4] Writing in The Conversation , Camila Nelson described the collection as "intimate and personal, but also epic in the breadth of its history of Aboriginal people". [5]

Awards

Awards for Homecoming
YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards PoetryShortlisted [6]
ALS Gold Medal —Shortlisted [7]
Stella Prize —Shortlisted [8] [9]
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature John Bray Poetry AwardShortlisted [10]
2021 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize for an Emerging WriterWon [11]
Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award Shortlisted [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Homecoming". Magabala Books. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Leane, Jeanine (July 2021). "'Fragments of many stars'". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  3. ↑ O'Brien, Ellen (Winter 2023). "Opaque Gems". Meanjin. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Lee, Carissa (15 May 2021). "Homecoming - Elfie Shiosaki". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Nelson, Camilla (28 April 2022). "Stella Prize shortlist 2022: your guide to six urgent, boundary-breaking books". The Conversation. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards". Creative Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "ALS Gold Medal". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Homecoming – Elfie Shiosaki". Stella Prize. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  9. ↑ Cain, Sian (30 March 2022). "'Surprised and delighted': poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "Shortlist announced for 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "2021 Winners". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  12. ↑ "History of the awards". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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