WRITE A POEM IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE IN MANUS PRISON CAMP

This is a call out to poets to stand in solidarity with those in Manus Prison Camp. We are asking for people to send their poems of solidarity to wirethroughthe@gmail.com

Your poems will then be forwarded to those suffering in the Australian funded and run prison camp on Manus Island.

Later all poems will be considered for inclusion in a collection of poetry to be edited by Janet Galbraith (poet, founder of Writing Through Fences and Editor of Refugee Writing Mascara Literary Review) along with 2 poets who are seeking asylum in Australia.

As Audre Lorde said: “POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY. IT IS A VITAL NECESSITY OF OUR EXISTENCE. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action”.

Janet Galbraith