Public. Open. Space

by Larsen, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781760992163
• ISBN10: 176099216X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-05-27
• Publisher: Fremantle Press

Summary

Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled and contested online and in real life. Looking at firewalls and feminism, activism and apathy, Public. Open. Space. explores freedom and suppresion, censorship and silencing, propaganda and protest, as well as the difference between being told ‘ no’ and choosing to say it ourselves.

Author Biography

Kate Larsen (she/her) is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide. Kate’ s work has been published or commissioned by The Relationship is the Project, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Voice&Verse and anthologies, magazines and arts organisations across Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. As one of Australia’ s best-known social media poets, her alter ego Katie Keys (aka @tinylittlepoems) wrote and posted a daily poem for over a decade. In 2018, Kate undertook an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange with the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which is where she started working on Public. Open. Space. Kate Larsen (she/her) is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide. Kate’ s work has been published or commissioned by The Relationship is the Project, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Voice&Verse and anthologies, magazines and arts organisations across Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. As one of Australia’ s best-known social media poets, her alter ego Katie Keys (aka @tinylittlepoems) wrote and posted a daily poem for over a decade. In 2018, Kate undertook an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange with the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which is where she started working on Public. Open. Space.