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I write books (three to date, fourth out in May), reviews, pieces for performance and essays; I collaborate with visual artists, psychologists and public historians. My work has been published, performed, carved into tiles, and set to music.
Currently I teach creative writing at The University of Melbourne.
Speaking from inside the immigrant experience, catching times and spaces of immigration before they're squeezed, solidified into an assortment of familiar, 'tamed' narratives... A six-part audio work.
Sarah's fourth book Draw Your Weapons is really really worth reading. We are at The Wheeler Centre talking about (perma)war, resistance, looking and not looking, the 'civil contract of photography', limits of empathy.
The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo enclosures.
From a special 'Writing and Trauma' issue of Text Journal edited by Bridget Haylock and Suzanne Hermanoczki, October 2017.
I have a short piece on my family's experiences in Uzbekistan during WWII in this new collection.
Extract from a public lecture given as part of the 2016 Wednesday Lecture Series Hosted by Raimond Gaita.
"What are essays for? They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. "
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