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'From Sri Lankan-Australian poet Janaka Malwatta, a superb collection that directs its imagining towards a just future for the next generation.
'This is a work of activism, fury and hope. Its urgent and purposeful poems contribute to the dismantling of racism, raging against its machinery. It combines performance poetry with poetries of witness and memory, recounting personal experiences of racism as well as historic injustices.
'The coherence of this collection comes from the incandescent rage that burns from the first poem to the last. Yet there is a measure of compassion here, a compassion that is able to register contradiction and complexity without passing judgement. Ultimately this superb collection directs its imagining towards a just future for the next generation.' (Publication summary)
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Author's note: This collection draws on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century accounts, and contains profoundly racist sentiments and language.
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Books Roundup : Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings, Nothing to Hide, Gemini Falls, Limberlost
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;
— Review of Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings 2022 selected work poetry ; Nothing to Hide : Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ; Gemini Falls 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel -
First Book Club : Janaka Malwatta on Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;
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Books Roundup : Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings, Nothing to Hide, Gemini Falls, Limberlost
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;
— Review of Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings 2022 selected work poetry ; Nothing to Hide : Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ; Gemini Falls 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel -
First Book Club : Janaka Malwatta on Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings
Ellen Cregan
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;