Help us raise funds for the Rural Fire Service
Each month throughout 2020, a different Subbed In author is choosing an organisation or cause to support with donations from sales of their book.
For the entire month of January 2020, $14 from each purchase of blur by the will be donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) to assist at the frontline of the climate crisis and assist with bushfire recovery efforts. The NSW RFS is largely staffed by volunteers and volunteer retirees. Years of austerity measures installed and continued by the conservative Australian government have stretched the resources of the NSW RFS.
blur by the is a collection of fractures that make not quite a whole. It is a giving of permission to the self, to exist as messily as ( i s ). These poems are a record of navigation through longing and dis [ place ] ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food and eroticism. blur by the is a yearning for freedom from grief, memory, andβultimatelyβfrom definition.
The form through which the poems take in blur by the is dancing-in-your-bedroom free, un-velcro-ed false bravado free. The poems eat a lot and hope to feed you too.
Zhi is a Malaysian woman currently based on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country which now exists as the esoteric wormhole known as Canberra. She is a believer of deep joy mediocrity and aspires to full time tenderness. She is best digitised on instagram @chamzhiyi.