rock flight Launch: Hasib Hourani in-conversation with Andrew Brooks

Released in September by Giramondo, rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation.

Join Hasib Hourani and Andrew Brooks for a poetry reading, in-conversation and book signing to celebrate its launch. 

Here is a poetry of passion; a poetry of necessity; a poetry of survival, and a poetry-triumphant. — Maxine Beneba Clarke

rock flight is a work of timelessness, rigour, precision, relationality and guts – just like its poet. A must-read for all of us who yearn and stretch and reach for a world beyond colonies, and an even more urgent read for those who don’t. — Alison Whittaker

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor editor, arts worker and educator living on Wangal Country in Sydney. His work has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry and Cordite, among others. He is a 2020…