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'Written from within Manus Island detention centre, where Mohammad has been incarcerated for the last five years, Truth in the Cage is a powerful work of personal and political poetry.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Heart's Words in Exile : Janet Galbraith Reviews Truth in the Cage by Mohammad Ali Maleki
2018
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review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2018;
— Review of Truth in the Cage 2018 selected work poetry -
The Other Side of the Fence : Anatomising the Cruel Experiment That Is Offshore Detention
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 405 2018; (p. 8-9)'Behrouz Boochani describes being smashed into the sea by the boulder-like weight of an overpacked, splintering boat transporting asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The wreck’s ‘slashed carcass’ gashes the flailing survivors and the bodies of those who have died, and Boochani settles under a wave, finding refuge ‘by imagining myself elsewhere’. Finding the strength to surface, he sees a group of men clinging to a wooden spar torn from the battered boat. Its spikes lacerate Boochani’s legs as he sinks and surfaces amid violent waves. A British boat approaches: ‘our gruelling odyssey has come to an end’. Having faced death in those underwater moments, Boochani reflects that ‘even a brush with mortality gives life a marvellous sense of meaning’.' (Introduction)
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Heart's Words in Exile : Janet Galbraith Reviews Truth in the Cage by Mohammad Ali Maleki
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2018;
— Review of Truth in the Cage 2018 selected work poetry -
The Other Side of the Fence : Anatomising the Cruel Experiment That Is Offshore Detention
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 405 2018; (p. 8-9)'Behrouz Boochani describes being smashed into the sea by the boulder-like weight of an overpacked, splintering boat transporting asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The wreck’s ‘slashed carcass’ gashes the flailing survivors and the bodies of those who have died, and Boochani settles under a wave, finding refuge ‘by imagining myself elsewhere’. Finding the strength to surface, he sees a group of men clinging to a wooden spar torn from the battered boat. Its spikes lacerate Boochani’s legs as he sinks and surfaces amid violent waves. A British boat approaches: ‘our gruelling odyssey has come to an end’. Having faced death in those underwater moments, Boochani reflects that ‘even a brush with mortality gives life a marvellous sense of meaning’.' (Introduction)