Ender Başkan



‘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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