Nirjala Pandey
Thinking Poetry
I am a migrant Nepalese girl who came to this country at the age of 12.
The idea of belonging and self identity was just a confusing thought in my 12 year old mind when I joined school here, it was almost as if I was too Nepali to be in an Australian school which was ironic as it was a multicultural school.
That is what brought these poems to life…the idea of race, culture and belonging which is what the poems speak on.