"I’ve always grown up as an in-betweener…Malaysian hyphen Australian, between really a working-class town, ‘struggle town’, and a really privileged private school, between secular and religious – even Queanbeyan is known as part city, part country."
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On his background in “Omar Musa, Australia's star slam poet, brings 'in-betweener' perspective to US” in The Guardian (2016 Feb 17)
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