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Be inspired by a collection of our finest poets who have distilled the indelible events, challenges and triumphs of the past year into thought-provoking works for Best of Australian Poems 2024.
Edited by Shastra Deo and Kate Lilley, Best of Australian Poems is in its fourth year, and collects previously published and unpublished work which captured the moments in 2024 that shaped our nation and its peoples.
Celebrate the release of this thought-provoking, inclusive and vibrant anthology with host Thabani Tshuma and contributors Toby Fitch, Madison Griffiths, LK Holt, Andy Jackson, George Kartas, Jeanine Leane, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Roslyn Orlando and Munira Tabassum Ahmed and bear witness to their poetic interpretations of the year that was.
Be inspired by a collection of our finest poets who have distilled the indelible events, challenges and triumphs of the past year into thought-provoking works for Best of Australian Poems 2024.
Edited by Shastra Deo and Kate Lilley, Best of Australian Poems is in its fourth year, and collects previously published and unpublished work which captured the moments in 2024 that shaped our nation and its peoples.
Celebrate the release of this thought-provoking, inclusive and vibrant anthology with host Thabani Tshuma and contributors Toby Fitch, Madison Griffiths, LK Holt, Andy Jackson, George Kartas, Jeanine Leane, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Roslyn Orlando and Munira Tabassum Ahmed and bear witness to their poetic interpretations of the year that was.
![Language Under Occupation
Evelyn Araluen reflected, I had all the theory in the world to explain the logics of our erasure, the violence of our replacements, and our more palatable Others. [...] But no one ever asked how we were both colonised by and inheritors of these words – from ‘To the Poets’, Dropbear (2021).
They traced the contours of language, sought out its limits, and pushed against them. Histories were cut up, struck through, misplaced, and misremembered. Evelyn Araluen, Hasib Hourani, and Mykaela Saunders engaged in a conversation about the careful craft of ripping the empire’s language to shreds. In their work, these brilliant writers shifted form in myriad ways; they rendered nonlinear temporalities and introduced new vocabularies. They wielded opacities while sharing the dearest of intimacies. Thinking through poetry and prose, language and craft, these three writers shared the shape of a language unsettled. Language Under Occupation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E1Yx7W2M4Pw/mqdefault.jpg)









