Susie Anderson



‘Language is sculptural material’: Manisha Anjali in Conversation with Susie Anderson

Poets traverse barefoot through immaterial places like the past, the future, and dreams. The container that houses the immaterial is the body. It is Country. Wergaia and Wemba Wemba poet Susie Anderson’s debut collection, the body country (2023), is a timeless capsule in which the material and immaterial are swirling in figure eights and where the self metamorphoses over and over in a delicate surrender to the infinite rhythms of Country.

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 4

With the glorious task of commissioning writers for a new collection of sincere, heartfelt writing for Tell Me Like You Mean It volume 4, I found it took longer than usual.

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‘A means of resistance’: Susie Anderson Interviews Alison Whittaker

Some writing teaches you possibility. Possibility in a number of ways: seeing yourself reflected in a body of work, echoing familiar words, places, or ideas; some writing is a lesson about form, or acts as an overall object to aspire to.

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