Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased and was born on Wakka

and was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg

improvised worlds

including a day at the races (2003)

Rare Object Number 9

‘Merry War (of never meeting and never ending)’ comprises Holt’s loose versions of the love poems of Jahan Malek Khatun (a female contemporary of Hafez) and the Roman poet Catullus

Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased and was born on WakkaTranslated by Eliza Vitri Handayani. Reading Holy Books is like entering a labyrinth. In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are lifted off the Holy Books, The Old Testament. The book is rendered with women who are present, alive, and weaving history