Dakota Feirer's poetry collection Arsenic Flower blossomed in the soil of stolen Country thanks to love, resistance and sacrifice.

He discusses negating the cycles of trauma, and the experience of finishing a manuscript while living and studying overseas.

Then head to SXSW Sydney with Awesome Black's founder and Executive Directory, Travis de Vries. 

And for Word Up, Gari Tudor-Smith reflects on the way familiar stories and words that are familiar, deepen in meaning over time.