Language Under Occupation

I have all the theory in the world to explain the logics of our erasure, the violence of our replacements and our more palatable Others. […]  But no one’s ever asked how we are both colonised by and inheritors of these words. – Evelyn Araluen, ‘To the Poets’, Dropbear (2021)

Trace the contours of language, seek out its limits and push. Histories are cut up, struck through, misplaced, misremembered. Join Evelyn Araluen, Hasib Hourani and Mykaela Saunders as they discuss the careful craft of ripping the empire’s language to shreds. In their work, these brilliant writers shift form in myriad ways; they render nonlinear temporalities and introduce new vocabularies; they wield opacities and yet share the dearest of intimacies. Thinking through poetry and prose, language and craft, these three writers will share the shape of a language unsettled.

Presented in partnership with Liminal

The bookseller for this event is Amplify Bookstore.

Bringing together some of the continent’s most talented writers, the Liminal Festival contemplates the language of our shared histories and future.

The Liminal Festival is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.