Here are some links to articles and reviews of Merlinda Bobis' works in literature, arts and education:
Here are some links to articles and reviews of Merlinda Bobis' works in literature, arts and education:
A snippet from this review site:
"Merlinda Bobis is a superb storyteller. She can take you into the precious intimacies of her characters with such ease that you are left breathless by the rhythm, the motion, the prevailing currents with which you’ve entered the mood of the tale. Like the old woman in the title story of this collection who sings her chant and calls up the white turtle from the sea to join the guests of a writers festival in Sydney, Merlinda keeps alive the Filipino storytelling tradition."
ACSANZ Conference 2000: Merlinda Bobis in Performance
A snippet from this review site:
"Merlinda Bobis performing "Promenade", a poetry-dance-drama from her collection "Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals". Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, 2 September 1998 and Peacock Theatre, Tasmania, 20 August 1991."
An article from the ANU Reporter
A snippet from this review site:
"Bobis has the rare ability to make poetry out of politics. In her work, the graceful use of metaphor becomes a formidable weapon, blasting escape routes out of stories of poverty and oppression."
Author List of Australian Non-Fiction: a listing from the Australian Online Bookshop
A snippet from this review site's description on Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals:
"This is an impressive showcase of Merlinda Bobis' poetry which ranges from lyric reflections on longing to an erotic poetry-dance-drama. Included in 'Summer Was a Fast Train' is "Promenade", her new performance poem about humanity's "derailed wish-dance" towards bridging differences, and an epic performance piece "Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon", her radical re-telling of a Philippine myth about an active volcano in the Philippines."
New!!!Ms. Serena Sereneta: a bi-cultural challenge - an article from KASAMA.
A snippet from this review:
"Merlinda Bobis, the writer of this War Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize produced by ABC Radio brings on stage the inevitable clash of cultures, the interpenetration of past and present, the tragedy imperialist wars bring on ordinary people's lives — their festering memory, the moulding of a colonial mind, the wry humour, the misunderstanding of this now seventy-two year old man serenading a Western Sydney 'blonde' Australian woman in the nineties."
New!!!I Love Too Beautifully Today: Merlinda Bobis, Poetry in Motion
A snippet from this review by Dee Dicen Hunt:
"Be careful when you read these poems. If you chant and speak them aloud and let them take you to your feet, you might just find yourself dancing — with the Other."
