Words to Sing the World Alive comes to the wonderful Adelaide Writers Week in a free event on Saturday 1 March.
Anita Heiss, Cheryl Leavy, Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas share words that are significant and essential to them. Discover words that evoke the connection of fathers and sons, of creation and sovereignty, of trust and power – words that
Benjamin Law was impressed by a 'precise, devastating, beautiful piece’ in the New Yorker by Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read, and sought out his first collection of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
He shares two poems from that collection: 'Thanksgiving 2006', saying that what resonates for him is the backstory of a
Based on two beautiful The Poet's Voice events, we've been working on a book of special and significant words from across this vast continent: Words to Sing the World Alive. ‘But it’s on the tongue where this language sings the world alive. Any one word can feel like a story, a narrative in small syllables. An arrangement of breath where my