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Taonga Sendama

Taonga Sendama is a poet and multimedia storyteller whose work explores memory, inheritance, and the space between page and stage. She has presented her work in theatre and has been supported by organisations including Fremantle Arts Centre, Centre for Stories, and the Wheeler Centre. Alongside her creative practice, she facilitates writing workshops with community that focus on collective writing and embodied storytelling. Taonga loves whales, lukewarm flat soft drinks, and lemons with salt.

I CAN’T DANCE, BUT I WANT TO

be where my people are / be where the pretty people are tonight, I’m making a fool of my shame, not bodies. always thrown by the weight of my own name in a room full of people who want to …

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HALF A CONVERSATION AFTER THE DIALTONE

I learnt about potential and parallels on Twitter today – This is the kind of thing I think I might whisper to you in the event of another sleepover turned perennial summer. In the parallel universe, time doesn’t necessarily run …

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Halitosis

I’ve made my peace and slept in it. I dream myself a dragonfly wine drunk on your bedside table, wake to find your face paling in the ache — Linen wretched with longing I grab, reaching — (Show me a …

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