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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings
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'From Sri Lankan-Australian poet Janaka Malwatta, a superb collection that directs its imagining towards a just future for the next generation.

'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.'  (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: This collection draws on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century accounts, and contains profoundly racist sentiments and language.

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Works about this Work

Books Roundup : Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings, Nothing to Hide, Gemini Falls, Limberlost Ellen Cregan , Daley Rangi , Duncan Strachan , Raeden Richardson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;

— Review of Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings Janaka Malwatta , 2022 selected work poetry ; Nothing to Hide : Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ; Gemini Falls Sean Wilson , 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel
First Book Club : Janaka Malwatta on Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings Ellen Cregan (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;
Books Roundup : Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings, Nothing to Hide, Gemini Falls, Limberlost Ellen Cregan , Daley Rangi , Duncan Strachan , Raeden Richardson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;

— Review of Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings Janaka Malwatta , 2022 selected work poetry ; Nothing to Hide : Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ; Gemini Falls Sean Wilson , 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel
First Book Club : Janaka Malwatta on Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings Ellen Cregan (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;
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