Heartsick for Country Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation

The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feeling heartsick because of the harm that is being inflicted on country even today, through the logging of old growth forests, converting millions of acres of land to salt fields, destruction of ancient rock art and significant Aboriginal sacred sites, and a record of species extinction that is the worst in the world.

Sally Morgan is an artist, and the author of the award-winning My Place. Tjalaminu Mia is a research fellow in oral history and the arts at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Blaze Kwaymullina is coeditor of Speaking from the Heart.