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'Visceral and energetic, Omar Sakr’s poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a seething, urgent collection from a distinctive new voice.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication:
For Candy Royalle,
gone too soon but never lost
&
my brother, Mohammed,
without whom I could not do what I do.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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What I’m Reading
2020
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020; -
What I’m Reading
2020
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020; -
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards : The Yield and The Lost Arabs Throw Fragile Lines across Cultural and Linguistic Divides
2020
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 December 2020; -
Confessions of an Ironist
2020
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 May 2020; (p. 18)'These days, I find myself acutely aware of borders and boundaries. Everywhere, rigid lines have replaced permeable, flexible ones: the lines between nations and states, of course, but also those between ourselves and others.' (Introduction)
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On Being, and Being In Between : Poetry and Arab and Muslim Identity in Australia
2019
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019;
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Re-making Memories : The Poetry of Identity
2019
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review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of The Lost Arabs 2019 selected work poetry ; Palace of Memory 2019 selected work poetry'How are our identities, our sense of self, constructed? Is it the projection of others that paints who we are, or is it a construction of our own? Is it the labels we assign ourselves, or impose on others? Does it all boil down to memories? Poets Omar Sakr and Paul Hetherington attempt to explore their own memories, thoughts, labels, and identities in their latest individual releases.' (Introduction)
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Confessions of an Ironist
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 May 2020; (p. 18)'These days, I find myself acutely aware of borders and boundaries. Everywhere, rigid lines have replaced permeable, flexible ones: the lines between nations and states, of course, but also those between ourselves and others.' (Introduction)
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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards : The Yield and The Lost Arabs Throw Fragile Lines across Cultural and Linguistic Divides
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 December 2020; -
On Being, and Being In Between : Poetry and Arab and Muslim Identity in Australia
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019; -
What I’m Reading
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020; -
What I’m Reading
2020
single work
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020;
Awards
- 2020 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2020 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
- 2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Multicultural NSW
- 2020 shortlisted Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature — John Bray Poetry Award
- 2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award