Double book launch!

Join Wendy and Frank Baarda to celebrate the release of their new books, Lest They Be Lost- A Lifetime of Little Ponderings by Wendy Baarda Nangala and Long Ago and Here Now in Yuendumu by Frank Baarda.

About the books:

Lest They Be Lost- A Lifetime of Little Ponderings by Wendy Baarda Nangala

From the heart of Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community nestled in the sweeping desert landscapes of the Australian Outback, comes a collection of ponderings that capture over fifty years of observations and reflections. Wendy Baarda Nangala, a teacher and long-term resident, offers us a window into her world through these verses, which weave the personal and the universal, the rhythms and hues of life in an extraordinary part of the world. With each line, Wendy invites readers to travel with her through decades of change, resilience, and connection to her community and its traditions. This collection is more than just ponderings; it is an intimate map of a soul's journey through the vast expanses of land and mind.

Long Ago and Here Now in Yuendumu by Frank Baarda:

"Frank Baarda’s companion work to his memoir, My Yuendumu Story, reads like a vastly expanded version of his musical dispatches, complete with soundtrack, and the insertion of elegant poetic fragments written by his wife Wendy. Personal, political, discursive, digressive, opinionated, erudite, passionate, partisan – the adjectives proliferate – Baarda’s voice is that of a born raconteur. Whether fleshing out his personal history through the story of his remarkable parents and his childhood in Argentina, riffing on the irreconcilable contradictions between the Warlpiri world view and the government agencies that attempt to manage its manifestations, or pursuing a fleeting distraction down a random rabbit hole, he is always entertaining, frequently funny, and at times, subversively profound. This is a story no-one else could tell, told by a great storyteller." Kim Mahood