Liminal

Edited by Elena Gomez for Liminal, ‘Here: Eros & the like’ is a series of digital art and writing featuring Asian Australian poets Shastra Deo, Lucy Van, Anupama Pilbrow, and Panda Wong. Join Elena and Liminal for a free community event featuring readings from these poets.  

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Liminal is an anti-racist literary platform, publishing art, writing, interviews and more. Visit website Lucy Van writes poetry and criticism. She teaches poetry in the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne. Her first poetry collection, The Open (Cordite 2021), was longlisted for the Stella prize, shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore award, and highly commended in the Anne Elder Award. Panda Wong is a poet and editor who lives and works on stolen Wurundjeri land. She works across multiple fields, including sound, film, performance and digital spaces. With a focus on collaboration, her practice circles around the void. Her first chapbook, angel wings dumpster fire, and her first EP, salmon cannon me into the abyss, were released in mid-2022. She is a co-editor for Best of Australian Poems 2023. Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone, was recently published by University of Queensland Press. She is still living.