Mother Tongue, Motherland & Motherlessness

Julia Cimafiejeva (Юля Цімафеева) is a Belarusian writer and translator living in exile. She is the author of four poetry collections in Belarusian and a documentary book Minsk Diary. Her new book is Motherfield: Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary.

Jill Jones is a poet living on unceded Kaurna land. Her latest book is Wild Curious Air, winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2015, she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and the USA, and has been translated into a number of languages.