Manisha Anjali

SELECTED PUBLICATION



Naag Mountain 
Giramondo, 2024

A community whose ancestors were indentured by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, receive messages from their friends across the Tasman. A mysterious reel of film washes ashore, depicting harrowing violence on sugarcane plantations under the indenture system. The actors walk out of the film and into the world of the living. The community walk into the projection.


Carrying water in an earthen vessel
Cordite Poetry Review, 2023

Tambourine Road
4A Papers, 2023

Farmer’s Ektara
Cordite Poetry Review, 2022

Dictation of the Flower
k(not), 2022

Sea, Pilgrim
Issue Three, Portside Review, 2021

Nausea
Taste Chapbook, Liminal Magazine, 2020 and Best of Australian Poems, 2021

Snake and Flower Performance
Issue 01: TIME, Co- publishing, 2020

The Thread is Made of Flesh
Bega Valley Regional Gallery, 2019 and A Clear Dawn Anthology, 2021

Two Eggs
— i.e, for the people we will be, 2020

What I’m Reading
Meanjin 2019



EDITORIAL PROJECTS

RUNWAY JOURNAL Issue 41: LOVE 
Guest Editor, Runway Journal, 2020

BITTERSWEET POSTAL SOCIETY
Bittersweet Exhibition Public Program, Casula Powerhouse 2020

THE TWO-HEADED BIRD 

Facilitator and Editor, Free Association, 2019

SCHOOL OF DREAMS
Neptune, Ongoing
Mark