Below are a suite of poems from 2022 Fair Trade artists Craig Santos Perez and Declan Fry, Between the Diagnosis and the Death, which they worked on collaboratively across a span of places and time.
Poets
First Nations transnationalism is one of the great things First Nations artists are working through today. The Fair Trade project was a great opportunity to share knowledge across borders, to gain a sense of how First Nations art is something much larger than the colonial nation-state.
Being in community with Declan increased my sense of international sovereignty and reciprocity.