Omar Sakr

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Books to take you places this summer

Nov 27, 2024 | indailysa.com.au | Omar Sakr |Isabel Greenberg |Cosey Fanni Tutti |Tony Birch

Non-Essential WorkPoetry by Omar SakrRecommended by NickAs I read Omar Sakr’s Non-Essential Work, I was struck by the ability of poets to encapsulate emotions, lives and times through rhythm and language. An award-winning poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants, Sakr writes poetry that connects with people, producing context that can make us laugh, reflect, analyse and feel. This was something special that I took from this book.
Son of Sin by Omar Sakr — the87press

Oct 11, 2024 | the87press.co.uk | Omar Sakr

ISBN: 9781068644634270 pagesDate published: 16/11/2024PaperbackFor fans of Ocean Vuong, Hisham Mattar, Adania ShibliAn exhilarating read. A rare talent. -Anthony AnaxagorouOmar Sakr’s literary voice is a marvel. He writes stunningly of family, faith and dislocation. -Hala AlyanOmar’s intensely poetic narrative adds a new and powerful dimension to the Australian literary landscape. -Alexis WrightSon of Sin is extraordinary.
Fractal / Flood | Hazlitt

Jul 3, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Mary Jean Chan |Andrew McMillan |Omar Sakr

The danger is in domestic happiness pricks of conscience the sound of his harp a species by itself I attempted every morning to persevere all other pleasures depend upon it having passed twenty years in ups & downs upon the ocean of patience a repetition of misery & happiness I converse daily & hourly in the immense flood I begin to emerge from a deep melancholy I have been too little among friends I remember a rare bird in London & I hid my face for not being able to hear this communication...
When they talk about children's safety, they really mean control

May 12, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Omar Sakr

On Fridays, from my unit, I hear the call to prayer sing out of Auburn’s Gallipoli mosque, and I remember my father’s funeral service there, the metal casket, the green cloth laid over it, the blazing white courtyard. Sometimes I join my brothers there, and sometimes I don’t. I have yet to take my son, who is almost two, to the masjid so near to our home and which is tied indelibly to my heart, but that day is nearing. I have, however, taken him to the local library.
Two Poems from Omar Sakr

Mar 3, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Omar Sakr

“How to be a Son,” and “A Beautiful Child” are poems are from Omar Sakr’s collection, The Lost Arabs (UQP). “Visceral and energetic, Omar Sakr’s poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a seething, urgent collection from a distinctive new voice.”Omar SakrTwo poems from The Lost Arabs. How to be a sonMy father was for the longest timea plastic smile locked under the bed.
As I write this

Oct 21, 2023 | sakr.substack.com | Omar Sakr

The apartheid state of Israel is conducting a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, aided and abetted by the governments of America, Australia, Canada, the UK, and much of the European Union (with the exception of Spain and Ireland). This aiding and abetting comes in the form of economic, military, media and political support. The US has vetoed UN resolutions that called for a ceasefire; they are actively maintaining, funding, and arming this genocide.
entering the colonial fog

Oct 10, 2023 | sakr.substack.com | Omar Sakr

It seems I’ll have to eat my words a little bit. In my last post I wrote about the unchanging cycle of discourse, only to find over the course of the last 24 hours, that it has in fact changed—or at least, become even worse, a more virulent strain of the norm. We have a state and Federal Labor government and despite their nominal status as “left-wing”, I’ve never seen Australian politicians respond this way to the ongoing conflict in apartheid Israel and Occupied Palestine.
On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s…

Jun 20, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Omar Sakr

I lift him out, whole and perfect. Said told me he would be here, chained by Dante To the eighth circle of hell, bettered only by the devil himself. The Paris Review recapped this canto in 2014, saying Read along! This week: Mohammed torn asunder. And so he was, again, “cleft from chin to colon.” In summary We are assured this is a marvelous mangling. I cannot abide (t)his pain.
Across Times

Feb 3, 2023 | sakr.substack.com | Omar Sakr

In 2019, I was commissioned to write a speculative fiction short story for an anthology called After Australia, published by Affirm Press. My short story was called White Flu, and Affirm loved it so much they contracted me to write my debut novel. When the spec fic anthology came out, my contribution caused a racist stir, upsetting local white supremacists. I’ve talked about this before.