Sorting migrants into good and bad is a lot easier than affording people human rights, dignity and freedom
When I was writing my second novel, Australiana, I deliberated over the title for a long time.
I had many stories that were set in a regional community, and I had an essay and then a whole series of poems. The essay I ended up publishing separately as The Conquest of Land and Dream, and the poems are a largely unpublished sequence called Dispossession.
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Yumna Kassab was the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature. She is the author of The House of Youssef, Politica, The Lovers and The Theory of Everything. Her next book, Goodbye, My Love, will be released at the end of April