Charmaine Papertalk Green


Charmaine Papertalk Green is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine Green she works a visual and installation artist.
Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia.

Career

Poetry

A number of her poems were included in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing.
Her work was included in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, while her 2019 poetry collection, Nganajungu Yagu, won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. Green won the 2020 ALS Gold Medal for Nganajungu Yagu and was shortlisted in 2019 for False Claims of Colonial Thieves.
Her 2018 book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-written with John Kinsella, was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. In his 2018 review, Robert Wood wrote: "As a critique of colonial Australia and a historical document, False Claims of Colonial Thieves has a certain weight and importance". She and Kinsella were interviewed by Claire Nichols for The Book Show on ABC Radio National.

Art

Green won the poster competition at the NAIDOC Awards in 2006. She is represented by Yamaji Art Centre, Geraldton.

Works