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...]
Poetry Collection
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...]
Amuk
March 15, 2024 by
Khairani Barokka’s uncompromising third collection of poetry amuk sheds light on the devastating and ongoing effects of a single word's mistranslation, and emphasises what exists in opposition to such hostile histories and presents: hope, resistance, and joy. Groundbreaking in its use of form and … [Read more...]
Kadang Rumah Tak Memberimu Pulang
March 12, 2024 by
How life never takes, but rather places. How death never disappears, but grows. Someone has speared the sun in the midst of noon. I heard someone has speared the sun. Naked, they leaped, and with a single flick of their hand, they hurled their spear at the sun. The poisoned tip of the spear … [Read more...]