Some of the best writers and poets from Indonesia, Timor Leste, Singapore and Australia are represented in this fine new book titled TERRA, launched at the Sydney Writers Festival last Saturday evening. All the writers have one thing in common. They have all been guests of

Selamat Datang di Daratan Tak Bertuan – Sam Wagan Watson

Semua rambu terbaca, SENYUMLAH … KAU DIPOTRET, Selamat Datang di Daratan Tak Bertuan, kau berdiri pada Terra Firma, yang dinamai penjelajah Terra Australis, dan disentuh ulang oleh penjelajah sebagai Terra Nullius, yang

The writing and art are interwoven with themes that range from childhood, family and home, to investigations of the body and the mind. These works resonate with truth, no matter how inexact, magnified and misshapen by memory, fear, love.

Writings by Arlene Ang, Barbara Jane

All the signs read, SMILE … YOU’RE ON CAMERA, Welcome to
No Man’s Land, you’re standing on Terra Firma, that some
explorer once coined Terra Australis, and another explorer then
retouched with Terra Nullius, that stole this land’s dreams,
Terra Firma could be the next

Kafein Kopi Bali
dan puisi
Pantas aku tak bisa tidur

dari sungai malam burung hantu menyapa Di mana pasanganmu?

panas musim hujan gatal keringat daun telingaku yang tertindik

kelembaban udara terlalu tebal untuk nafas suburkan pakis

fajar Ubud seserpih bulan sabit