Category: Poems

NEDOSTAJANJA / LONGING

POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin reminisces about her hometown of Sombor, Serbia.

POEM: Zoe Alexandria ponders the comforts of the celestial while missing someone far away.

POEM: Ranjitha Krishna explores the tumult of learning and unlearning painful lessons handed down by White, heteronormative power structures.

POEM: Kiran Bhat describes the turbulence of living in the spaces in-between.

POEM: Pip Sheehan meditates on their natural surroundings, feeling and listening for the many histories imbued therein.

POEM: Kiran Bhat describes his experiences debating at school and the impossibility of navigating the arbitrary feedback of a racist voice.

POEM: Kiran Bhat reflects on his grappling to learn his ‘mother tongue’ amid discouragement and dislocation.

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.