Damien Becker
Damien Becker writes about living with cystic fibrosis. His debut poetry collection, Thin Reed Throat, won the 2024 Flying Islands Manuscript Prize.
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Damien Becker
Damien Becker is a poet and performer living on Bundjalung Country in Murwillumbah, NSW. His writing draws on a lifetime of navigating chronic illness as someone with cystic fibrosis and as a double-lung transplant recipient. An award-winning spoken word artist who has performed nationally and internationally over the past decade, his poems have featured in Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Journal, Suburban Review, Northerly, and Regional Review, among others. Damien won the 2024 Flying Islands Manuscript Prize for his debut poetry collection Thin Reed Throat, published by Flying Islands. The award judges wrote that ‘Thin Reed Throat is a serious book on an important topic, ambitious in its scope, and beautifully written, utilising the poetry to its full capacity… to tell a powerful and uplifting story that moves easily and naturally between laugh-out-loud funny and tear-evoking.’
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