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Barrina South

Barrina is a Barkindji artist, poet and critic dedicated to writing about topics and themes affecting land, place, culture and history. Her short story Family Tree was recently adapted for the stage by the Mill Theatre, Canberra, and she was commissioned to write an ekphrastic poem for the National Gallery of Australia. Her work has been published in Rabbit, Authora Australis, Kuracca (a First Nations poetry anthology), and a special issue of Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry. Barrina was an invited speaker at the 2023 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival and was awarded the 2024 Varuna First Nations Fellowship. Her work has been selected for several forthcoming anthologies, with her first collection of poetry currently in development. Barrina is a member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and a Director of Us Mob Writing (UMW). She lives on Ngunnawl/Ngambri Country.

Weereewaa

respectfully yuma weereewaa filled from the rain lost under the sun restricted flow shallow but with a deep history evidence suspended in the silt pollen and ash worked stone eagles circle, watching lake’s large mouth, calls it’s tongue licks at …

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Oak Trees and Gum Trees

modest conversations with interruptions static broken sentences and silence I ask her to read to me 100 poems by 100 poets she does while tying crystals to my ankles I sink like a ghostly shipwreck settled on the ocean floor …

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Paper boats

at dusk we launch paper boats with the free-flowing words inscribed in charcoal last of the daylight allows us to watch them set sail into the night we wait for the water to swallow them solace knowing our words would …

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