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Nathan Sentance

Nathan mudyi Sentance is a cis Wiradjuri library, archive and museum theorist who attempts creative writing. He was the winner of 2024 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize.

Aug 31st and everyday like it

early train light rattle caresses the carriages aircon soothes my forehead trees wave past eyes shutter as my head nods train slows along with a burst of dust men enter draped with the Australian flag that stir with their hips …

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They don’t remember

they don’t remember me tied to a tree, rope serpent constricting mouth to the sky, tongue praying for rain later the tree chopped to make the paper used to write how their grandfather was benevolent to me a loyal servant …

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Nathan Sentance Reviews Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today Edited by Alison Whittaker

2020 is a hectic year, ay? Severe bushfires, Covid-19 outbreak, the subsequent lockdown, the colonial government funding an idolised re-enactment of the starting point of the invasion of these lands, Black people being harmed and murdered by state agents such as the police and those same police protecting boring statues of colonisers all while Rio Tinto destroys a 46,000-year-old sacred site.

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