The Head of the English Language Department at the Ibn Rushd College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Baghdad, Dr. Amir Jaseb Freih, published a book in English entitled (Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960-1980, Poetry of Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960-1980), at Anthem press/London/New York and Amazon, as the writing the book lasted for two years.
The book aimed to show how Australian and American poets collaborated with other civil rights political activists to voice the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the social, political, and cultural realities they experienced.
The book contributes to comparative studies of Australian and American political history by showing how these poets resisted cultural and linguistic domination and opposition to marginalization in the representation of their peoples’ cultures and languages and highlights how these poets revived the history of their peoples by poeticizing some of the notable events in their history, focusing on the similarities, differences, and structuralities of their poetry, despite their responses to relatively different literary and political influences.