DMZ Colony Kate Bolton Bonnici memories and spiralling thoughts start

memories and spiralling thoughts start to pollute

What the bearers of meaning do not say

Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life

and contemporary Irish poetry

a child builds a snowman out of ice with her mum's friend Joyce and skirts round the edge of some adult truths

DMZ Colony Kate Bolton Bonnici memories and spiralling thoughts startWinner of the National Book Award In DMZ Colonys weave of words, artfully used oral history and typographic experimentation, increasingly words give way to her fathers documentary photos from the time of General Park Chung Hees brutal putsch and dictatorship, a regime supported by the USA. DMZ Colony expresses mourning, a resistance to empire, and a hope in humankind. Virtuosic in its range and empathy, this is a book that shifts the readers