Summary
Parang is the second collection of poetry from former Australian Poetry Slam winner Omar Musa. Written over four years, the collection explores Malaysian jungles, dark Australian streets, and dreams. Dealing with the issues of loss, migration and belonging, Parang is an incisive and sometimes raw look at the here and now of a changing world.
‘Parang is as brutal as it is delicate, poems romp between the urban landscape and foreign humidities … I love these poems, they are a clarion ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143572275 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014357227X |
| Author: | Omar Musa |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 130mm x 6mm |
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‘I savored this. Omar Musa is a special writer with his own beat, cutting through worlds.’ - Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. ‘Parang is as brutal as it is delicate, poems romp between the urban landscape and foreign humidities …I love these poems, they are a clarion call to the listless, to take up the parang, or the pen, the instrument or the book and make something happen. A balm for the conflicted, Musa is a rhapsodist like no other.’ - Tara June Winch, author of Swallow the Air. ‘Never mind page versus stage, this is poetry: listen.’ - Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis
About The Author
Omar Musa
Omar Musa is an author, visual artist, rapper, and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has written:
- Two novels (including Fierceland)
- Three books of poetry
- Five hip-hop records
- Two plays: Since Ali Died and The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio) (with cellist Mariel Roberts Musa)
His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Best Australian Stories, and Best of Australian Poems.
His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Miles Franklin Award. In 2015, he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year.
Fierceland won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Omar Musa has also had several solo exhibitions, including The Hurt Business.
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