Kōrero
Verb: External Memory

As soon as the ink is dry, an essay collection becomes a time capsule. As their first books are published, Flora Feltham (Bad Archive) and Cher Tan (Australia; Peripathetic)weigh the emotional dilemma of writing from the inside of their own lives as the world paces on. What does it mean to commit something to print under these conditions? Alongside Leah Jing McIntosh (Australia), founding editor of Liminal magazine, the authors consider what happens when they move on, but their words remain fixed.

A discounted ‘Ticket + book’ bundle is available for a copy of Bad Archive by Flora Feltham, or, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan. If purchased, your book can be collected from Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington in advance of the festival, or at the event from Unity's book table.

Presented as part of Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024, for which Satellites is a supporting partner.

Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Catapult, The Age, Disclaimer Journal, Cordite Poetry Review and Overland, amongst many others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging is out now with NewSouth Publishing. She lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Flora Feltham is a writer and weaver from Pōneke. She has an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Her work has appeared in Turbine | Kapohau, ArtNow and The Guardian. Bad Archive is her first book.

Leah Jing McIntosh is a critic, researcher, and the founding editor of Liminal magazine. Some of her recent projects include editing the essay collection Against Disappearance, and directing the Liminal Festival.