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1 Poem for Sōng i "I have been inconsistent.", Andrew Sutherland , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 Autobiography of a Sickness Andrew Sutherland , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 128-139) 'A disclosure: before being asked to do this lecture, I had never read a word of Stow. When I was nineteen, I left Western Australia to study in Singapore. When I graduated, I stayed. If leaving was an intentional turning away from a cultural lineage, or canon, then staying was a decisive choice towards another. Reading, after all, is political—more political, perhaps, than writing itself. Later, when I did return, and began to write, it was the Queer Singaporean and Singapore-based writers and artists I had encountered who formed my creative ancestry and who I felt I might exist in conversation with, if I were to exist in this space at all. But any residence forms lineages, and in returning to live on this land—where I hold legal citizenship, enforced by the world's dependence on borders and the nation-state, and where I was born—authorial ancestries are free to entangle, be speculated over and perhaps even transformed.' (Introduction)
 
1 Letter to Luoyang Chen i "Time is passing, just a little, and I am still", Andrew Sutherland , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;
1 At the Conference on HIV Stigma in December 2021 i "I wonder if I should defend the fact that I am young. Seven years", Andrew Sutherland , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 35)
1 1 y separately published work icon Paradise (Point of Transmission) Andrew Sutherland , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 24397426 2022 selected work poetry

'This brilliant debut collection examines a ‘haunted’ Queer and HIV-positive identity. It follows an HIV diagnosis and a departure from Singapore as the poet moves from being secretive about his HIV status, towards living a more public life, in which living openly with HIV is characterised by the queer longing toward both resilience and transformation.'  (Publication summary)
1 Antarctica i "I was thinking about Antarctica", Andrew Sutherland , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 164 2022; (p. 6-7)
1 Poorly Drawn Shark Andrew Sutherland , Vidya Rajan , 2020 single work drama

'Andrew moves to Singapore, where his features shine and his skin is extra-white. But, in profile, he still looks like a child’s drawing of a shark. And he must keep moving forward, though he smells blood. With his modelling career drying up, visa swiftly disappearing, and the water stagnating, an older Singaporean man named T. swims into his jaws…

'Superiority tackles self-loathing in this Queer clapback to Eat, Pray, Love and its kin. POORLY DRAWN SHARK is a sharp and hilarious attack on autobiography: drenched in salt water and biting hungrily at Australia’s fetishisation of South East Asia. Saviours, daddies, selfies, servitude, and only the sexiest colonial ghosts wash up on the shore as performers Andrew Sutherland and Ming Yang Lim deep dive into a sea of narcissism, need, objectification, and nationhood.

'Nauseating, grotesquely funny and brutally aware, prepare to Eat, Prey, Hate in this autobiographical takedown of the western travel narratives and enlightenments we seek to consume.'

Source: Theatre Works.
1 Arrival Time (In Fifteen Movements) Andrew Sutherland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 98-107) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 15)
1 Metaphor i "I ask Wan Ching how she is. Are you lonely? At home on whatever-floor. She replies, I have had mysterious", Andrew Sutherland , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 World Tree Andrew Sutherland , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Verity La , March 2020;
1 You Came Home With Purple Hair Andrew Sutherland , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 Suburban Portrait i "absence feels nothing like cement", Andrew Sutherland , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
1 As If You Were a Pharaoh i "Leaving the cinema, Jay and I walk by wetlands, hands held against the", Andrew Sutherland , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 176-177)
1 August Instructional i "Proposition: ghosts are constantly eating you alive.", Andrew Sutherland , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 175)
1 The Children Andrew Sutherland , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: We'll Stand in That Place and Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competition 2019 2019; (p. 163-176)
1 Trickster i "I remember the day you turned into a fish.", Andrew Sutherland , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Lite Lit One , no. 1 2018;
1 Breed i "i. wet", Andrew Sutherland , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Lite Lit One , no. 1 2018;
1 Angrboda i "Her name translates to:", Andrew Sutherland , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Lite Lit One , no. 1 2018;
1 Siglap Centre (East Coast Road) i "Is now an appropriate time", Andrew Sutherland , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Lite Lit One , no. 1 2018;
1 East Perth [Imagined Nation] i "If I were quizzed about my values,", Andrew Sutherland , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 229 2017; (p. 65)
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