Join us as we explore the languages of Australia’s first peoples, against the backdrop of the exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Journey with our speakers, Sarah Burr, Paul Collis, Lizzie Ellis and Nardi Simpson, as they introduce and define favourite words in language, then discuss why these word are precious and defy translation into
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