Fremantle Press to publish Public.Open.Space.

Delighted beyond words that Fremantle Press will publish Public. Open. Space. in July 2023.

Begun during my 2018 Asialink Arts residency at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, it’s a new collection of meme-, micro- and longer-form inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled and contested online and in real life

Looking at firewalls and feminism, activism and apathy, Public. Open. Space. explores freedom and suppression, censorship and silencing, propaganda and protest, as well as the difference between being told ‘no’ and choosing to say it ourselves.

Positioned at the intersection of poetic and digital culture, the collection explores the sense of placelessness increasingly resonant for all of us who live and working in the digital realm.

The collection was featured in The Age / Sydney Morning Herald’s list of standout titles you’re going to read in 2023, and Maxine Beneba Clarke has endorsed it as ‘a considered, tender, and accomplished debut from a poet to watch.’ 

I couldn’t be more thrilled to share it with you soon. You can register for publication updates on the Fremantle Press website.

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