Category: Poems

The circle is still open

POEM: Dejan Stevanović takes stock of recent journeys, and wonders whether or not he is any closer to understanding the people around him.

POEM: Kiran Bhat takes us to a hotel room in 1999, where he and his parents prepare to attend a special event in the US.

POEM: Narmadhaa Sivaraja describes how false racial hierarchies are reinforced through a wilful cloaking of non-White players.

ART + POETRY: Sadaf and Mahnoor Khan share with us a collaborative piece of hope prevailing through unity during trying times.

POEM: Teresa Sadkowsky ponders the restlessness that drives her to keep wandering on.

POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin charts the physical and emotional struggles she felt going into another wild Australian summer.

POEM: Asha Naznin describes the tastes, textures and sights that have meant home to her as she has travelled all over in search of her dream.

POEM: Verica Delova Srma describes the mixing of embers from her past and present that keeps a fire in her going wherever she is.

POEM: Agnieszka Berger ponders the transience of life’s interactions and the potency of recollecting them.

POEM: Jolly Bhattacharjee shares a poem that explores the changing roles in the parent-child relationship in places ‘in-between’.