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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…
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Talya Rubin and The Pandemic Poetry Project
Welcome to a New Day If the cherry tree were in blossom like this always, maybe we would not weep at the losses the silences. How a boat moored in the harbour is quiet now. A friend inside it, or not inside it eats dumplings, sips soup, sleeps away from the people she loves in case by breathing too closely on their soft skin, too near to be safe she kills them. A white bloom is sudden, a shock of life, like birth, like the birth of a little girl in my arms, something uncertain and beautiful as a cloud or the sun triumphant from behind a cloud. “Welcome…
