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Lulu Houdini

Lulu Houdini is a Gamilaroi poet and midwife. Lulu’s work explores invisibility, memory, resistance, and liminality. Her poetry has been published by Meanjin, Overland, Red Room Poetry and Wakefield Press, with her debut poetry collection winning the 2024 black&write! Fellowship. Lulu currently creates and lives with Jerrinja, Wandi Wandandian Country.

Regeneration Is Not a Metaphor

I’m coming to you in English because the tall ships’ memory is still in my psyche, and in the time when I was born in 1992, this lingo was the first language for most of us on the east coast. Even when my youngest granddaughter passed over, they were still speaking in English.

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