Loving family and garden, Northern Territory and poetry.

The island has until recently been open, because the local Aboriginal Land Council did not encourage tourism, but there is now a resort style hotel on the island and visitors are welcome. Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and it’s part of the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Reserve. The island is becoming renowned for its fine Aboriginal rock art sites and outstanding sport-fishing. About its notable people, Norman Tindale (anthropologist and ethnologist), David Warren (inventor of the flight data recorder) and poet Kaye Aldenhoven.

She has read her poems on ABC radio, and has collaborated on projects with visual artists. She has travelled in Indonesia and India, China, West Papua and Nepal. Poetically, she eschews decorative language, choising for a clear diction to illuminate her themes. In 1992, she won the Northern Territory Red Earth Literary Award. She lived and taught at Yuendumu and Amoonguna, Alice Springs and Darwin. In 1971 KAYE ALDENHOVEN moved to Umbakumba (on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory). She is an Australian poet and teacher, and one of her book explores the conundrum of living in country. She is passionate about family and her garden, Northern Territory history and poetry. Her’s book Botanica Erotica, is an exploration of love and six, family, country, history and pain that persists through generations.

TO PREPARE FOR YOU – To prepare for you I scrub the soles of my feet and cut my toenails. I wash and brush my hair flicking it out with my fingers, so each strand will dry fast and sweet in the breeze of the ceiling fan. I smooth oil on my elbows, thighs, and knees. Brushing oil from my palms over my nipples, so they’ll stick to your fingers. I wrap myself in a silky sarong choose a cunning earring which will jangle in your bed when I shake my hair over you. Will you notice that I’ve cut my hair? One side is longer than the other, but I won’t neaten it. I’ll wear the earring on the long side. I streak perfume through my hair. Bought near the Jain temple in Udaipur palest green scent distilled from a root dissolved in oil of sandalwood. Last time I left you, I could smell you in my hair all day.

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