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Heritage: Filipino
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1 A Brief History of Water Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Against Disappearance : Essays on Memory 2022;
1 Transported Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 182)
1 Ingat Mga Kapwa Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 206-209) Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of Take Care Eunice Andrada , 2021 selected work poetry
1 Susmariosep! i "And Sunday sinks its heathen summers into the kneecaps of the expropriate wicked /", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;
1 Don't Call Us Dirty i "The speaker loves their mother from a distance although,", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 56)
1 Room With a Poo i "a non-descript burd", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 68-71)
1 Deluge i "I—the sieve through which a rushes was flowing", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Golden Shovel, After Sibylle Baier i "Not the animal. Not the evidence, but its assertion, where", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 I Capture the Cradle i "wherein the proof of my wound a bootstrap", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 If We’re Going to Talk about Love, Please, We Have to Talk about Violence i "Half-past ten the sun on its axis.", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Aubade i "I am overextended. The poem forgets me", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Hold : Your Sun is Arriving Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , August no. 123 2021; (p. 6-7)

'It’s cliché to begin with the weather. Like the body, Billy-Ray Belcourt contends, ‘so much is won and lost there’, though in a more fictive, low-stakes kind of way: pathetic fallacy has long been the domain of white men with a bone to pick about their mothers. Still, in the wake of thick, foggy evenings that have pulled the day like a blanket over a bed that’s getting too much use, the break of cold sun on my apartment’s balcony feels aerated with the weight of possibility, a semiotic kind of lightening. I pull myself into wakefulness. Things are less burdened with history, or they exist in memorialised time in which history is allowed to pass with less of its stowed baggage.' (Introduction)
1 Poem Title : ‘My Father the Sky’ Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 94)
1 Frame Semantics i "There were things in the surgery that proved immovable:", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 1 2020; (p. 28-29)
1 What's Your Bodypolitik Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 104-105)
1 King St. Lesbianism i "It liked to lick tar", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Diversity : The University of Sydney Student Anthology 2019 2020; (p. 3-4)
1 No Language for White Man i "The Young", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 238 2020; (p. 60) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 66-67)
1 Church Of i "The speaker loves their mother from a distance", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 46-48)
1 Oyster Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Voiceworks , December no. 117 2019; (p. 19-23) ''In the summer of my' sixtieth year, I left the Old Place where I was born. It was a very nice place, though I couldn't bear to stay much longer due to the heat, which was too stifling for anything, save contemplating its weight on the body. The Old Place had barely withstood the trauma of humans - scraps of glass and metal littered the surface, curlicued junk strewn everywhere, so sharp our feet grew hard and muscular to resist it. There were none of those things called maps by which I could chart my journey. No phones or compasses or even torchlights, only some old hand tools and bits of food which my family packed in a cloth sack, and a mould-eaten photograph of an oyster pinned to my lapel.' 

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1 Gladly Beyond i "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond a discount furniture warehouse & midnight", Lou Garcia-Dolnik , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Voiceworks , July no. 115 2019; (p. 69-70)
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