Omar Sakr

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Omar Sakr is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) and The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been widely published and anthologised in places such as the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Vintage Knopf, 2020), the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP, 2020), Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2016) and Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016). Born and raised on Dharug country to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants, he lives there still. His debut novel, Son of Sin, is forthcoming with Affirm Press.

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The Next Big Thing

Poetry Edition

Saaro Umar, Autumn Royal, Chloe Wilson, Omar Sakr

8 May

Double Booked Club

Melanie Cheng and Omar Sakr

Khalid Warsame, Omar Sakr, Melanie Cheng

7 Jun

Postcards From Abroad

Rabih Alameddine: The Wrong End of the Telescope

Rabih Alameddine, Omar Sakr

4 Nov

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