Elif Sezen

Elif Sezen is an Australian/Turkish multidisciplinary artist, bilingual poet/writer and translator. She holds a PhD from Monash University. She lives and works in Melbourne. Elif's practice evolves through various fields: In her work she speculates upon reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial/personal/collective trauma and loss. This explorative process leads her to a restorative and even a celebrative notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming. Her poetry collections include A Little Book of Unspoken History (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018) and Universal Mother (Gloria SMH Press, 2016): https://www.elifsezen.com

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25 October 202325 October 2023 · Poetry

The inhabitants

Elif Sezen

I died today, among many others, my grandpa died too, and our neighbours, / my best friend, the one with braided hair yes, and our sweet sweet doctors, / our motherly nurses... We heard a blast, then a whoosh of some kind, / and all gone.