Word Travels and Southerly Publishing present:
A World Poetry Day Celebration with the release of Southerly Magazine's powerful collection: Writing Through Fences – Archipelago of Letters.
6-8pm Monday, 21st March 2022
Word travels HQ Level 3 101-111 William St
Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
Gadigal Country
The island continent has created an archipelago of incarceration spanning from South East Asia, Micronesia and Melanesia in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and across mainland Australia. This issue of Southerly, titled Writing Through Fences, is devoted entirely to the work of past and present refugees in these detention centres.
The records of their experiences are devastating; their creative responses, across genres and media, are astounding. The issue also includes responses from Australian writers, activists, essayists and students, who engage with refugee writing as well as the practices and consequences of refugee incarceration.
Writing Through Fences is guest edited by the writer-activists Hani Abdile, Behrouz Boochani, Janet Galbraith and Omid Tofighian. Two of these editors have direct experience of Australian refugee detention. Three have been displaced and exiled. All four have worked for years with refugees as translators, enablers and publishers to bring the creative voices of refugees into public view and circulation. This issue presents the greatest range of new refugee writing assembled to date in Australia.
With readings by editors Hani Abdile, Behrouz Boochani and other artists.
Event Artwork by Elahe Zivardar as part of Elahe’s Border Industrial Complex series. “Paintings which depict the real stories of Australian offshore processing centers on the Islands of Nauru and Manus”.
This event is presented by Word Travels and Southerly Publishing and made possible through the work of the organization Writing Through Fences. The event is sponsored by Create NSW, The Copyright Agency, City of Sydney and the Australian Government RISE funding.
This is a free event with limited space and bookings are required.
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