By Qi Bingdu
ghostly faces sail forth
in rusting long drawn boats,
tossed upon the crooked sea,
as flickering radar dots.
‘illegal’
‘boat persons’
are labels used by some,
whose laden interests
and greyhound pursuit,
dicate their inhumanity.
By Qi Bingdu
ghostly faces sail forth
in rusting long drawn boats,
tossed upon the crooked sea,
as flickering radar dots.
‘illegal’
‘boat persons’
are labels used by some,
whose laden interests
and greyhound pursuit,
dicate their inhumanity.
A speculative narrative that flips the history of European colonisation by imagining a reversal: a seafaring people from a southern island travelling north to colonise a new frontier (a year before Cook got to Australia).
A poem by Indian–Australian poet and visual artist, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad.