Sara M Saleh: ‘I want to know the system and its flaws, so I know how to undo it, transcend it’
Sara M Saleh is bright against the picture of a rather dreary day. The poet’s blue headwrap and coloured frock are stark beneath grey clouds rolling overhead as are her white sneakers stepping through freshly moistened mud.
We meet after a night of intense storms, in the car park of an unassuming football field in Riverwood, western Sydney – the front for a secret reserve known only to locals.
Salt Pan Creek “just feels beautiful” to the poet, novelist and human rights lawyer. The only clue we are not in a private forest is the muted rumble of vehicles on the nearby motorway.
(Saleh is also a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause. This interview was conducted before the current Israel-Hamas war,
