“…Samuel Wagan Watson is an Indigenous poet of mixed "Munanjali, Biri Gubba, German and Irish" origin (Barratt-Peacock, 2020, p. 170). Barratt-Peacock (2020) classifies his poetry as mostly concerned with "the hybrid subject, language and place in (sub)urban Australia" (p. 167). Watson is perceived as a poet of the "second generation," commenting on the complex social reality of Australia in the form of "protest" writing (McCooey, 2017, p. 77;cf.…”