Mykaela Saunders
Apocalypse, then (and now, carbon lullabies)
'history: a horror story
this country cursed by its founding myth —
you may tame god by taming the land'
This epic nonfiction poem by Koori and Lebanese writer Mykaela Saunders exposes the root of Australia’s environmental crisis nightmare, charting its evil course all the way through to our present: ‘post-apocalypse, not yet post-colonial’.
Mykaela Saunders on Eckhart Tolle: Everywhen – Against 'the Power of Now'
Colonial capitalism has always been obsessed with dissecting bodies, blood, land and time, with reducing everything to the smallest units to commodify or study, as if a part can or will teach us about the whole. This is the colonial archive at work.