Poetry Collection

ecdysis: cacophony of skins

July 13, 2025 by

Released May 19th, ecdysis: cacophony of skins is the latest pamphlet from the award winning poet Dena Igusti. Dena is a queer, non-binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist raised in Queens, NYC. Their pamphlet Cut Woman (Game Over Books) was … [Read more...]

Hantu Padang

June 29, 2025 by

Hantu Padang is Esah Tegar Putra’s latest poetry collection, written over a considerable span of time. This collection is his way of seeing, remembering, and revisiting the city where he grew up. His journeys back and forth between Sumatra and Java make Hantu Padang more than just a record of … [Read more...]

Document Shredding Museum

May 25, 2024 by

Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Museum moves from intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass environmental and semantic destruction, engaging with Javanese literary tradition and the archives of colonial and postcolonial violence. Drawing on a wide array of modes … [Read more...]

Interrogation Records

April 14, 2024 by

To this day, there exists in Indonesia a black hole of silence in acknowledging the 1965 mass killings as what they were—tragedy. Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records is a rare docupoetry collection that explores and calls into question the “official” narratives revolving around the massacre … [Read more...]

Celana

April 8, 2024 by

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