Between the Leaves

Violence

Episode Summary

Hosts Ellen and Hermina share a selection of poems exploring racial, gendered and political violence.

Episode Notes

This episode discusses violence and abuse. If this raises any issues for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit our website for a full list of support services.

Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Music (Intro) Loop Lady - 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara | Creative Producers Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns | Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham | Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock | Recording  Squeak E. Clean Studio, the Voice Plant | Graphic design Aimee Carruthers

Poems

• Akhmatova, Anna. “Prologue”. Selected Poems, Penguin, 1985.
• Choi, Franny. “TO THE MAN WHO SHOUTED “I LIKE PORK FRIED RICE” AT ME ON THE STREET”. Floating, Brilliant, Gone, Write Bloody Publishing, 2014.
• Burns, Hermina. “The Stick”. Crossing a Line, Bristlebird Press, 2020.
• Kefala, Antigone. “The Actual places”. Absence, 2010.
• Fullerton, Mary. “Puppets”. Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets by Llewellyn Kate, Llewellyn Kate and Susan Hampton, 1986.
• van Neerven, Ellen. “Women are still not being heard”. Throat University of Queensland Press, 2020.