Dakota Feirer



Tell Me Like You Mean It 7

Image by Angélique Moseley When briefing commissioned poets on what I imagined this volume of Tell Me Like You Mean It to embody, I eagerly told them to simply ‘tell me like you mean it’. I didn’t care if it …

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Consult to me

repetitious tones of consulting are weekly weakening. monotonous Acknowledgments of Country in email signatures. traditional custodians must be rich, been paid that many ‘respects’. Underwhelming paper-pushing white-guilt-projecting ‘Indigenous Stakeholder Engagement Frameworks’ bunch of white-fulla-jargon, with dot-art-for-margins. How numbingly quick they …

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25-to-life

Dedication’s pressing his twenties, had his smile contentious. Somewhere between portraits, pokies and payslips he’s hit the minor-jackpot-black-privilege. That’s the-kettle-calling-the-pot-black-scholarship, that’s front-page-university-magazine that’s naidoc-week. All-teeth no-sleep still-black-coffee. Three-chapters-deep, lofi-on-repeat, thesis won’t break me, no time for poetry, don’t panic, it’s …

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