Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Hate Race, the award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the poetry collections Carrying The World and How Decent Folk Behave, and many other books for adults and children including the Kate Greenaway Medal nominated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, and the poetry collection It’s The Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people. She is currently the Peter Steele Poet in Residence at Melbourne University.
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
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