Poems

Learning Resources

Dalgah
Jagunu
Yarabih barehbanu

make music
from the land
sing in dreams

~ Ellen van Neerven from ‘Gibam Garandalehn (Full Moon)’, Poetry In First Languages

• Bora bora
  By Brenda Saunders

  Dig your hand in deep, touch hardened clay
  feel the spread of stamped ground firm and flat
   
  trace the circles we now call bora

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• An Address To The Shadow That Follows Me
  By Jill Jones

  I’m still your goddess of crumbs and scraps, chewing on suburban air
  Let me tell you, it takes some guts to do that
  amongst these pokerfaced love shacks and villa clones
   

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• The family line
  By Tricia Dearborn

  i. Busted
  nothing is busted
  it is broken
   

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• Star Swamp Meditation
  By Scott-Patrick Mitchell

  earlier, full moon morning
  white orb weaver
  spun glow into view  
   

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• Entanglement
  By Toby Fitch

  I am watching myself untangle
  my earphones, my body’s walk paused,
  standing on the corner of Bedford and Probert
  beneath mini grotesques on the roof

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• woomera part 2
  By Em König

  just like children i was
  casting
  spells in ancient caves we
  hid                          used

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• Luring water
  By Anne Elvey

  With filaments thread by threaded hand
  they delve into the mineral grains
  & standing, lure water from the sand.
   

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• They say “western sydney”, what they mean is...
  By Sara M. Saleh

  To the people who came before us, who made themselves at home
  ‘in the tensions of these geographies so we might make our way beyond them’…
  (~Natalie Diaz)
   

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• Purging the Apes
  By Benjamin Dodds

  At first, it felt forced—
              how to stow a chimp inside a poem
  and safely pass through customs?
  Six years of Pan troglodytes

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