Articles by: John Falzon

Author Biography:

John Falzon is a poet and sociologist living on unceded Ngunnawal land. He is the author of The Language of the Unheard (2012) and Communists Like Us (2017).

The Social State: The state as arena of struggle and lasting transformation

As a condensation of social relations, the state is a key arena for the struggle between the neoliberal manufacture of despair and the grassroots harnessing of hope in transformative practice.

Informit: West ham ; All I think about is Jacqueline ; The duende came ; Trench Art

Everything started when I was four years old...

Informit: Fragments for Leila

Leila warns me against poetry...

Informit: Porter Stories 01; Porter Stories 02; Porter Stories 03

Poetry in the told and the untelling...

Informit: Banishing the poets from the polis; Cavafy

We'll just say you're gods and this is why you have to stay outside...