Bibliograph

Ask no questions, (a migrant's tale), Eva Collins

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Ask no questions, (a migrant's tale), Eva Collins

Language

eng

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Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Ask no questions

Responsibility statement

Eva Collins

Sub title

(a migrant's tale)

Summary

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from Poland to Australia. She captures the loss and gain, grief and celebration with great poignancy. Simply written but deeply moving, Ask No Questions is accessible poetry that is particularly suited for young adult readers. A beautifully constructed and engaging work. Ask No Questions charts an emigrant's journey with great clarity, humour, pathos, and a disarming directness that will connect with readers of all ages, and inspire others to recount their own stories of leaving their homelands to begin life anew on distant shores

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