{"id":663,"date":"2026-04-01T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=663"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:57:35","slug":"melanie-mununggurr-aus","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/melanie-mununggurr-aus\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Mununggurr (AUS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melanie Mununggurr (AUS) is a Djapu mother, poet, storyteller and performer from Australi\u00eb. Their work is deeply rooted in connection to land, language and culture, weaving Dhuwal language into poetry and performance as a way of decolonising literary and artistic spaces. With a powerful, grounded voice, Melanie creates work that bridges personal narrative and collective identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where you may know this artist from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Released their first spoken word EP <em>Glimmer<\/em> in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performed with a 7-piece ensemble at the Sydney Opera House in 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Currently writing their first full-length play <em>Little Girls, I&#8217;m home<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":576,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-663","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":663,"nl":661},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/663\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}