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    blackbirds don’t mate with starlings
    blackbirds don’t mate with starlings
    blackbirds don’t mate with starlings
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    blackbirds don’t mate with starlings

    By Janaka Malwatta

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    This is a work of activism, fury and hope. Its urgent and purposeful poems contribute to the dismantling of racism, raging against its machinery. It combines performance poetry with poetries of witness and memory, recounting personal experiences of racism as well as historic injustices. The coherence of this collection comes from the incandescent rage that burns from the first poem to the last. Yet there is a measure of compassion here, a compassion that is able to register contradiction and complexity without passing judgement. Ultimately this superb collection directs its imagining towards a just future for the next generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateAug 30, 2022
    ISBN9780702267154
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