dB2 - COMPLETE SET lived and told true

lived and told true

(the national language

Gorging and resisting

in many poems we catch a glimpse of  a calm

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet

dB2 - COMPLETE SET lived and told trueThe second set of 10 collections in the deciBels series, guest edited by Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta and Carlomar Arcangel Daoana. In this series of deciBels, we highlight the voices of poets from the Philippine archipelago as well as those emerging from the neighboring regions of Malaysia and Macau. The voices, as expected, are wonderfully polyphonicfrom tones that capture the rich, formal cadence of rhyme and meter to improvisatory streaks of utterance