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engPublication classification
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1445-5986Research statement
Background This poem is part of the portfolio, "Exploring Cross-Cultural Social Justice through Poetry." It investigates the social impact of workplace negligence, focusing on the deaths and injuries that have occurred in the food delivery industry in Australia. Many of these were international students. The poem responds the work of Korean poet Jin Eun-Young who explored the Sewol Ferry Disaster in a series of poems. This disaster was caused by negligence of the ferry company and involved the deaths of many students. Contribution While there have been a number of newspaper articles on deaths and injuries in the food delivery industry in Australia, poetry provides an alternative way to foreground the systemic nature of negligence towards its casualised workers (which include many international students) and provide a way that will encourage readers to both remember victims and advocate cultural change. It also contributes to contemporary elegy. While there has been creative focus on asylum seekers, less attention has been given to the precarity of international students. Significance The poem is part of a portfolio that seeks to draw attention to parallels in social justice issues between Australia and Korea, being one part of a poetic dialogue with leading Korean poet Jin Eun-Young.Publisher
Cordite PressPlace of publication
Sydney, N.S.W.Source
Cordite Poetry ReviewUsage metrics
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