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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
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‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
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‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
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Lee Lai is is a cartoonist and graphic novelist from Melbourne, Australia, currently living in Montreal, Canada. In 2021, she was chosen as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit.
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