WHITENESS
About the author
Jason Gray is Mauritian-Australian and has published fiction and poetry in Seizure, SWEATSHOP's The Big Black Thing 2017-18, Zine West, Griffith Review, and has read at Parramatta Studio Stories and Digital Writers' Festival's 'West Meets West'.
Jasonβs book HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) is available from Subbed In.
HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) is experimental poetry about growing up bi-cultural; a neo-Coolie meditation, exorcism of racial bigotry and satire of fear-mongering, from a decolonial Mauritian-Australian perspective.
Mauritian culture is too often known in the West for the dodo: an extinct, flightless bird who inhabited the island and died out during European colonisation.
Suburban mainstream yachts grow, giant
weeds in driveways, outlaw
gutter trophies, never seem to
Like! Find water?
But: I am Black enough to hold
the Whiteness in me
on me and @-me, account without counting
a graceless film-fade into seething light
hide colour, enlighten or die
settling, whiny-rewind VHS scores
(At Aussie, weβll save you!)
First edition. Book. Perfect bound. 74 pages.
ISBN: 9780648147596
