“We still exhibit humans,” says Tina Makereti, “What fiction allows us to do is look at it – if we do commodify humans.” Creepy and incisive decolonisation thoughts. Makereti’s new book, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, is out soon.
I love the way Anna Jackson’s mind works – Math as god, allusive seeing motifs and love poetry enabled by a partner disinterested with poetry, among other insights. You can buy her collection of new and old poetry, Pasture and Flock, from AUP and other book stores.
My main takeaway from Harry Ricketts and Jane Stafford discussion about poetry was that it would be nice if more people read poetry. Either that or fewer people need to write it. Basically the writer to reader ratio needs addressing.