By Zara Khan and Jordan Daly Photos by Ansel Wakamatsu Sauce: Performances by four local poets: Onur Karaozbek, (UNSW’s very own!) Albert Lin, Fayroze Lutta and Hasitha Adhikariarachchi. Three words to set the scene: politics, culture and identity. Three minutes for each performance. A language other than English (featured …
Read More »In Conversation with Miles Merrill: Chicagoan, Performing Writer and Creative Director of Word Travels
By Zara Khan and Jordan Daly Miles Merrill is many things. A writer. A performer. A performing writer. An African-American. A mentor. The Creative Director of Word Travels in Sydney. He brought poetry slams to Sydney, and his work touches on society, class and race and has been …
Read More »Bitter waters
Sailing to the edge of the world, I travel with the painter’s daughter We float for miles and miles, over the black and bitter water. We’re dying every day, but never dead like ghosts trapped in a shell, from where we sit, the world is gray, in this little …
Read More »Too Young for Wearing Black
Too Young for Wearing Black Laura Kenny (@LauraRacquel) Asylum Seeker I am too young to clothe myself in mourning black. A little mirror image of he who takes the living from the world. I’ve hidden away the person that I was – In a shroud of dark that drifts through …
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