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The Year that Made Me: Omar Musa, 2023
Saturday, 11 April, 2026

Queanbeyan raised, Bornean-Australian poet, visual artist, and award-winning author Omar Musa says his "hyperactive mind" keeps him looking for the next project. He has published five hip-hop records, four books of poetry, wrote and starred in a one-man play about the death of Muhammad Ali, and creates woodcut prints. 2023 was a year that Omar describes as containing "all the highs and lows that you can experience in life... love, loss, grief, and then grief on a grand scale with the genocide in Gaza". It was the year he met his wife, the cello player Mariel Roberts Musa - at a chance meeting in New York City, and also the year he tragically lost his best friend, B.