Thomas Keneally, and UTS academics,
Creative Writing Lecturer Dr Rosie Scott
and Associate Professor Debra Adelaide
The forum will be chaired by Associate Professor Nina
Burridge, Director of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies
Research Centre.
An anthology of stories, memoirs and poetry from some of Australia's leading writers on what has become one of the moral challenges of our time - seeking asylum in Australia.
Free entry. All welcome.
.... Bertold Brecht's poem In Dark Times concludes that the most important Question, looking back on history's dark moments, will be: "Why were their poets silent?".
A Country Too Far represents the varied and vibrant voice of writers speaking out as Australia contravenes its obligations to refugees. Its stories, poems, memoirs and essays collect their work into an eloquent refusal of silence in the face of, as John Tranter writes:
"this/ fetch of disparate peoples/ assigned to come possessionless into massive/ light". Felicity
Plunkett, The Australian, 30th November
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