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Ender Başkan

Ender Başkan lives and works in Melbourne/Narrm. He is a writer, poet, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books press. His novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man was published in 2019. He is the winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Published by Giramondo, his new book of poems Two Hundred Million Musketeers has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026.

‘To be a child is to be human’: Abbra Kotlarczyk in conversation with Ender Başkan

Ender and I first met during a brief encounter at a mutual friend’s house exhibition in Brunswick East, Naarm/Melbourne, well over a decade ago. My oldest kid is now 9, so I know it was more than ten years ago, but often the timelines blur into these loose categories of ‘before’ and ‘after’: the before and after of having babies, of writing poetry again, and of understanding the meaning of the word ‘oxytocin’ in this new, rapturous way.

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Low Theory / Goodnight Guerrilla

they say to judge a man look at his shoes but in my case look at my socks their holes have been darned by sophie exquisite my god! what have i done to deserve this fate good socks with natural …

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best australian poem 2023!

this was the year i changed my bio from writer to poet this could be our year we said id won a prize and youd come into form so we submitted two poems each to the anthology best australian poems …

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in real life

first thing in the morning she barrels in daaaaad lets play frida kahlo fell off the bus ok let me wake up a little daaaaad get up i get up dilan lies on the couch shes frida now i pull …

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