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The yield june winch5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘I really enjoyed that process,’ she says. ![]() In order to bring some Wiradjuri language into that story, she studied the dictionary compiled by Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM and linguist Dr John Rudder. Winch traces the beginnings of The Yield back to researching her 2006 novel Swallow the Air. And via the scattering of these dictionary entries throughout the book, we’re revealed interwoven storylines of people and country through time. Embedded in every one of his definitions are personal reflections and wisdom passed down from the ancestors. So, he’s decided to construct a dictionary of all he remembers – all the words he ‘found on the wind’. Facing death, he’s determined to pass on to the next generations the language and knowledge he’s amassed throughout his life on the banks of the Murrumby River. ![]() Tara June Winch’s 2019 novel The Yield begins with Wiradjuri elder Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi introducing his story. Every person around should learn the word for country in the old language, the first language – because that is the way to all time, to time travel! You can go all the way back. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. I was born on Ngurambang – can you hear it? – Ngu–ram–bang. ![]()
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