OCACPS Talanoa Series presents ‘An Evening With…Manisha Anjali’
Join us at the Molikilagi Bure on Tuesday 01 July (5.30pm-7.30pm) for OCACPS’ second event in our new talanoa series called ‘An Evening With…’
This is a free event held in collaboration with Suva-based Baka Books. Details on the talanoa topic and the speaker are below.
Manisha Anjali discusses forgotten histories of the South Pacific and mystical methodologies, from receiving dreams to finding traces of kin in colonial archives, in reference to her narrative poem Naag Mountain, a collaboration between history and dream. In Naag Mountain, a counter-history is formed through dialogue with the submerged past, mirroring the fragmentation, disorientation and hybridity of historical displacement. Her current work encompasses islands and underwater research, moving towards a poetics of the unseen during the climate crisis.
Manisha Anjali was born in Suva, Fiji. She is the author of Naag Mountain (Giramondo, 2024). Naag Mountain 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. She is the founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. Manisha is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.
