Maccas jouissance & Coolitude: a chat w/ Jason Gray & Ariel Riveros Pavez
Ariel Riveros Pavez had a chat with HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) author Jason Gray via Facebook recently. Check it out below. No Facebook account needed. Click the comments to read the interview. If you find it isn’t loading properly, hit refresh on your browser.
Ariel Riveros Pavez is a poet | writer | translator | multi-artist (blog) & scholar | tutor | arts therapy-coach | #unrecovery consumer-scientist (website). He’s also a publisher ex - Australian Latino Press | PhiloMedica.Online project suite and current sites Supersentient Network | Buck House Writers ; and former event manager of The Blue Space Poetry Jam. Ariel is the author of two chapbooks.
Jason Gray is a Mauritian-Australian writer who has lived mainly in North-West and South-West Sydney, and writes towards and about youth, being Xennial/Millennial, bi-cultural and a Person of Colour, pop culture and forms of media, toxic/White patriarchal and restorative/progressive masculinity, anti-racism, anti-colonialism, displacement, suburbia, home and staying kind in this late (anti-)capitalist hellscape. Twitter @jasongray85
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, we’ll save you!)
First edition. Book. Perfect bound. 74 pages.
ISBN: 9780648147596
