Ken Canning/Burraga Gutya, Yimbama Yan Jun is a distinctive

Yan Jun is a distinctive new voice on the international scene

and on the threats to its ecology

Cambridge University Poetry Festival

a town frantic with social diversity

into a family involved in Myanmar’s decades long ethnic conflict

Ken Canning/Burraga Gutya, Yimbama Yan Jun is a distinctiveYimbama is the second collection by Indigenous Australian poet Ken Canning, also known as Burraga Gutya. Canning is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Indigenous Australian activism. The poems collected here offer an unflinching examination of the lasting damage done to Indigenous Australia by European colonization and the continuing political struggle. As unflinching and uncompromising these poems are in their protest and dissent, love for