Blak Bites is a short-form video project designed to connect First Nations young people with poetry in accessible ways. Through this project, First Nations creatives speak directly to camera, share a little about their practice, and offer a simple writing prompt or technique for young mob to try themselves.
Blak Bites aims to meet First Nations kids where they’re at and remind them that poetry is something they can do, anywhere.
Explore the videos, poems and poets below.
Featured Blak Bites
Lay Maloney is a young genderfluid storyteller of the Gumbaynggirr and Gunggandji nations and South Sea Islander heritage based on Dunghutti Country. With their poem Junuy Garruja Lullaby, Lay has chosen to experiment with form by writing a ballad. Ballads are narratives (story poems), often written in quatrains (four-line stanzas)with rhyme schemes such as ABAB or ABCB, where the second and fourth lines rhyme.
- Learn more about the poet
- Read Lay's poem