This Issue of Double Dialogues was spurred by two disparate events. The first related to my attendance at a group of Melbourne and Geelong poets giving a reading of their work devoted to the theme of “light on our darkness” in Melbourne, Australia, in June 2015.
The second, at a time of ruthlessly imprisoning refugees in off-shore concentration camps by Australia, was a haunting recollection of the Chinese proverb, “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”