Wednesday July 2, 6pm at Baka Books
Opening scene. Sugar cane plantation on fire. Tea plantation on fire. Copra plantation on fire. Banana, banana. Copra, copra. Fire. Fire wails with choirs of widows and seabirds: girmit songs of longing, mourning cries and culling prayers.
Manisha Anjali was born in Suva, Fiji. She is the author of Naag Mountain, which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, longlisted for the Stella Prize, highly commended at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and commended for the Anne Elder Award.
Manisha is the founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.
