Nathan Sentance



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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