Magan Magan Magan Magan i(10999215 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: African
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1 Maybe i "Maybe the old anthem possessed our mother.", Magan Magan , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 54)
1 Home Is a Rectangle Magan Magan , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 December 2020;
1 Magan Magan Reviews S K Kelen’s Yonder Blue Wild and Kit Kelen’s Poor Man’s Coat Magan Magan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;

— Review of Yonder Blue Wild : Travel and Places : Poems 1972-2017 S. K. Kelen , 2017 selected work poetry ; Poor Man's Coat Christopher Kelen , 2018 selected work poetry

'Award-winning author S K Kelen beautifully explores the theme of travel in his collection Yonder Blue Wild. For some, travel is a benefit awarded to them by virtue of their class; for some it is a tool to attain an idealised version of the life they want to lead. For others, travel is something they have no choice in. The connecting thread is indeed a kind of escapism, and an attempt to express, through movement from place to place, one’s own humanity. In that expression hides stories untold.' (Introduction)

1 The Coach Says i "Your mother’s words appear to be", Magan Magan , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , December no. 6 2019;
1 The Earth Responds As It Does i "When I was a young girl", Magan Magan , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 6 no. 2 2019;
1 Magan Magan Reviews Sweatshop Women Ed Winnie Dunn Magan Magan , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 24 2019;

— Review of Sweatshop Women : Volume One 2019 anthology short story poetry

'What does it look like to tell your own story about love, faith, home and history? It looks like a collection of prose and poetry titled Sweatshop Women written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. Writers who courageously tackle difficult themes that demand of us our attention. Sweatshop Women are a collective of new writers based in Western Sydney that was established in 2018 to support women from Indigenous and culturally diverse backgrounds. The collection showcases stories from writers who show us what it means to reclaim a narrative that was taken from them. The powerfully relevant collection is reminder of the importance for a community to come together to tell their own stories away from the lens of the powerful. It is a reminder to resist the objectification of marginalisation. The stories published in the anthology are unsurprisingly as diverse as the authors themselves. The identity of the writers range from countries that border the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, South Central Asia, East Asia, West Africa, East Africa, South America, South Central Asia, including writers who are native to Polynesia, Indigenous, and African American. The critically diverse writers illustrate their understanding about the human condition represented in the stories through prose and poetry – crafting stories that are quiet often untold or deemed unimportant.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Anthology Yvette Holt (editor), Magan Magan (editor), Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2019 16908955 2019 anthology poetry '‘Australian Poetry Anthology’, Volume 7 2019 – features works by more than 70 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by Yvette Holt and Magan Magan. These poets are also Australian Poetry subscribers and though it is a national anthology, there is a focus on poetic voices from the Northern Territory, whether known or emerging. Vol 7 also includes a range of First Nations voices, including some from the NT, and poems by four women prisoners from the Darwin Correctional Centre. The volume was launched at the NT Writers’ Festival – Alice Springs, featuring 10+ NT poets reading, hosted by Yvette Holt.' (Publication summary)
1 Scissors i "Your uncle thinks it’s brutal", Magan Magan , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 42 2019; (p. 62)
1 Stability Abandons at Will i "When home looks at me", Magan Magan , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 42 2019; (p. 62)
1 Dhaqan Celis Magan Magan , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up African in Australia 2019; (p. 205-218)

'I am originally from Somalia but was born in Yemen. After leaving Yemen, my family moved to Malta for a few years before migrating to Australia in 1991. My parents couldn't go back to Somalia because the civil war had broken out as they were moving from one country to the other. As a result, my parents had no contact with their families for years. My siblings and I were born in different countries: my older sister and brother were born in Saudi Arabia; my younger brother was born in Malta.' (Introduction)
 

1 Life Poem i "You are paralysed in the living room of your neighbour", Magan Magan , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 April no. 90 2019;
1 Magan Magan Reviews DeciBels 3 Magan Magan , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

— Review of DeciBels Series 3 2018 series - publisher poetry
1 Intoxicated i "You can't get away from yourself", Magan Magan , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2018; (p. 47)
1 The Feet That Don’t Stop Will Come to Know Shame i "You son has small feet.", Magan Magan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Seawater i "She presses her hand", Magan Magan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Offset , no. 17 2017;
1 I Go i "Where are you going?", Magan Magan , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Offset , no. 16 2016;
1 When Love Is Taught by Men with Wet Tongues i "The sweaty boy in my class told me his father loves the woman next door.", Magan Magan , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 84)
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