Candy Royalle
Books
A Trillion Tiny Awakenings
UWA Publishing/Australia,2018
about the author
Candy Royalle was a proud Palestinian-Lebanese queer woman and an electric poet and performer. It was a cold and blustery day in Sydney on June 23 when poet Candy Royalle laid down her warrior gloves and breathed her last. The queer, Arabic, literary and protest worlds bowed their heads in shock and lamented her loss. She had a life cut too short and A trillion tiny awakenings is her first and only book, published last year by UWA Publishing/Australia.
Esteemed poet and activist Candy Royalle was our 2018 Fellow. She performed with RR's Poetic Threads: Lady and the Unicorn exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW weeks before her untimely passing. Red Room Poetry, along with Candy's family and friends created a film capturing her enduring personal and poetic legacy.