Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, rapper, artist, and poet. He has released a few records and three books of poetry. His debut novel was long-listed for several important prizes. His other books include The Clocks and Parang.

The heart of the phrase is the thing that makes Omar Musa’s Play On as strong a piece as it is. Play On finds its strength in a candid, almost dark voice that creates just the right kind of picture to speak to the experience of the author.

I AM A HOMELAND (from Killernova) Tanah — earth. Air — water (sea). Tanah air — homeland. Aku tanah air. I am a homeland . weighted to the ocean floor by a moral conundrum.

Oct 19, 2020 · I was inspired by the tale of Mansa Musa’s hajj to write a poem, which I am pleased to share with you. The Golden Caravan. The train stretches on mile after mile, Camels by the thousand in single file, Bearing across the shifting sands, Gold by …

Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House.

4) In stanza 10 Musa sums up his key message of the poem, which is that immigrants and those who live in poverty are misfits that deserve to be respected, understood and treated as equals in society, that beauty can be found in the most 'scary' or 'dirty' places.

Musa Poems - Popular examples of all types of musa poetry to share and read. View a list of new poems for MUSA by modern poets.

Mar 5, 2012 · Through the good graces of Andrew Sullivan's blog, from which I'm borrowing shamelessly here, Australian poet-rapper Omar bin Musa (and here) declaiming his poem "Fireflies,"which ends this way: This poem is for the survivors, it's for the outcasts,

Jan 1, 2021 · Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan,… first claim. Nor the last word. ‘You can speak us now!’. Australian poems by Australian poets are at the heart of Red Room Poetry, an organisation devoted to creating, publishing and promoting the reading and writing of great new work.

Musa has published four books of poetry: The Clocks, [10] Parang, [11] Millefiori, [12] and Killernova. [4] Much of Musa's early work deals with the themes of migration, Australian racism , violence, masculinity, and loneliness. [ 1 ]