Poet // Performer // Educator
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Paris Rosemont
Multi-award-winning, multi-disciplinary internationally published Thai Australian poet and educator with a passion for the arts.
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Paris combines her literary and theatrical penchants into the multi-sensory exploration of the art of performance poetry.
Paris Rosemont
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Barefoot Poetess, the follow up collection to Paris Rosemont's highly acclaimed debut Banana Girl, is about journeys: through love, disenchantment, and change.
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With her second poetry collection, Barefoot Poetess takes readers on an intimate journey through Rosemont’s metamorphosis – from the disillusionment of fractured relationships, complexities of culture and identity, the ridiculousness of the current zeitgeist, through to – at the very heart of things, love. This collection ripples with an undercurrent of violence. Yet there is also a softness to it—a sense of hope amidst the jagged edges.
"Besides reclaiming the word ‘Poetess’ as an act of rebellion, Paris Rosemont has also reclaimed a woman’s fierce allegiance to her body, sexuality, her selfhood. Throughout this book she reclaims the language of love and her love of language."
~Dorianne Laux, Finalist: 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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"Paris Rosemont’s Banana Girl is an exhilarating, unruly, heartbreaking ride, dramatizing a multivocal poetic apprenticeship and an impressive accomplishment. This brash, brittle, vulnerable ululation peels back the banana skin layers of Asian-Australian identity, sprawling across the pages, pushing at the margins with slam ferocity and formal exactitude. At times it feels a verbal and emotional striptease, as it traces, celebrates and savages different sexual and domestic relationships in a mosaic of verse forms and contrasting fonts (and including emojis, puzzle pieces and charts). It’s acrobatic, performative poetry—a high-wire language circus—as well as decorous in its literary invocations (e.g. of Plath, the English sonnet tradition, French poetry, Japanese and Korean forms), It’s an exciting blend of registers: defiantly revolutionary and deferentially formal."
~Judges' report for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature's 2024 Dame Mary Gilmore Award
With Special Thanks To
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