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Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator
living on unceded Gadigal Country.
Hasib's debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024, and with New Directions (US) in 2025. rock flight won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry at the New South Wales Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, the Mary Gilmore Award, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. rock flight is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was highly commended in the Anne Alder Award. |
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Here is a poetry of passion; a poetry of necessity; a poetry of survival, and a poetry-triumphant. —Maxine Beneba Clarke rock flight is a work of timelessness, rigour, precision, relationality and guts – just like its poet. —Alison Whittaker Be ready to be transformed by Hourani’s diasporic anticolonial poetics. —Don Mee Choi Hourani’s language is crystal clear and complex. —Bec Kavanagh There is something impressively mathematical about Hourani’s multiplications of meaning. —Jumaana Abdu rock flight is an extra-poetic call to action possessing a feral desire for language to become object. —Tom Branfoot Hourani’s poetic power lies in his knack for shifting language as though between states of matter. —Austin Spendlowe |
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