Poetry
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Two Poems from boots by Nadia Rhook
Nadia Rhook is a white settler historian, educator and poet. Her poetry is inspired by her work as a historian as much as it is by her life experiences and family histories. Click on the sound files below to hear Nadia Rhook read two poems from her debut collection boots ( UWAP, 2020). Like “a compulsory streak of lightning in an optional summer sky”, Nadia Rhook’s poems speak to the regrets of memory and the terrors of complicity – Rashida Murphy granddad’s anger ES · graddad’s anger The poems in Nadia Rhook’s boots grapple head-on with what it means to write as a settler in a…
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Eulogy for Hasan by Alan Fyfe
“Eulogy for Hasan” was shortlisted for the prestigious Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2019 and later published in Overland. If you liked this poem, you may also want to read Alan’s prose poem “Ocean”. Listen to Alan introduce and read the poem by clicking on the SoundCloud link below. ES · Eulogy for Hasan By Alan Fyfe “I don’t think there’s anything currently happening in Perth quite as exciting as Alan’s writing.” – Lucy Dougan About the poet: Alan is an award-winning Jewish writer from Mandurah, the unceded country of the Binjareb Nation, and his poetry and prose have been featured in various…
