Traumata author and academic Meera Atkinson has written a beautiful and deeply fascinating piece on Bobish and trauma, as an analytical review which explores Bobish in the context of Dr Ahona Guha’s nonfiction book Reclaim. This is such a tender reading with beautiful gems such as the description of the book as a “kind of intuitive-affective translation that “comes with its own linguistic and creative reading of the experience of others” or describes the cover image as “a young woman with the thousand-
WestWords, Western Sydney’s Literature Development Board, invited me to do a reading from Bobish for their Writing Western Sydney series which they very promptly put up on their YouTube channel.
My poem “Pompadour” is part of the longest for the 2023 South Coast Writers + Wollongong Art Gallery award! It’s a wonderful longlist and I’m very pleased to be included. Full details of the prize and other long listed poets here: https://southcoastwriters.org/scwc-poetry-award-2023?fbclid=IwAR0EzwKdnSEZwezEwJ-stTiNnw07X0ttpb_0K-Ive1tsZAip67Ft8DvPWqQ