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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Truth in the Cage
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'Written from within Manus Island detention centre, where Mohammad has been incarcerated for the last five years, Truth in the Cage is a powerful work of personal and political poetry.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Truth in the Cage Mohammad Ali Maleki , Chloé Charody (composer), Australia : Chloé Charody , 2023 27146142 2023 selected work lyric/song Seven poems from Mohammad Ali Maleki's collection (written while imprisoned on Manus Island) set to music by Australian composer Chloé Charody. Performed by Caitlin Redding & Kunal Lahiry.

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Works about this Work

Heart's Words in Exile : Janet Galbraith Reviews Truth in the Cage by Mohammad Ali Maleki Janet Galbraith , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2018;

— Review of Truth in the Cage Mohammad Ali Maleki , 2018 selected work poetry
The Other Side of the Fence : Anatomising the Cruel Experiment That Is Offshore Detention Felicity Plunkett , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 405 2018; (p. 8-9)

'Behrouz Boochani describes being smashed into the sea by the boulder-like weight of an overpacked, splintering boat transporting asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The wreck’s ‘slashed carcass’ gashes the flailing survivors and the bodies of those who have died, and Boochani settles under a wave, finding refuge ‘by imagining myself elsewhere’. Finding the strength to surface, he sees a group of men clinging to a wooden spar torn from the battered boat. Its spikes lacerate Boochani’s legs as he sinks and surfaces amid violent waves. A British boat approaches: ‘our gruelling odyssey has come to an end’. Having faced death in those underwater moments, Boochani reflects that ‘even a brush with mortality gives life a marvellous sense of meaning’.'  (Introduction)

Heart's Words in Exile : Janet Galbraith Reviews Truth in the Cage by Mohammad Ali Maleki Janet Galbraith , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2018;

— Review of Truth in the Cage Mohammad Ali Maleki , 2018 selected work poetry
The Other Side of the Fence : Anatomising the Cruel Experiment That Is Offshore Detention Felicity Plunkett , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 405 2018; (p. 8-9)

'Behrouz Boochani describes being smashed into the sea by the boulder-like weight of an overpacked, splintering boat transporting asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The wreck’s ‘slashed carcass’ gashes the flailing survivors and the bodies of those who have died, and Boochani settles under a wave, finding refuge ‘by imagining myself elsewhere’. Finding the strength to surface, he sees a group of men clinging to a wooden spar torn from the battered boat. Its spikes lacerate Boochani’s legs as he sinks and surfaces amid violent waves. A British boat approaches: ‘our gruelling odyssey has come to an end’. Having faced death in those underwater moments, Boochani reflects that ‘even a brush with mortality gives life a marvellous sense of meaning’.'  (Introduction)

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