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OUT OF THE VOID: Voices from Detention (Yasaman Bagheri and Farhad Bandesh )

Verity La December 10, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …

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Farhad BandeshMichele SeminaraSaba VasefiYasaman Bagheri

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019

Verity La November 22, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …

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Ági DobsonBallina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019Joanne NewberyKristine McKinney ReesSaba VasefiSarita BennettSouthern Cross UniversityStevi-Lee AlverVictoria King

Black Pomegranate (Saba Vasefi)

Verity La February 24, 2016 Heightened Talk

In my father’s garden you pick a black pomegranate and when I open my pocket for you to place the fruit there, you look at me with a fervent stare. You …

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Saba Vasefi

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