Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Mr. John Mateer

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	20. Juli 2013
Personal information:	John Mateer is a poet, curator and writer. Among his many books of poems are Emptiness: Asian Poems 1998-2012; Unbelievers, or the Moor; and Southern Barbarians. He has also published two prose books, the latest of which is The Quiet Slave: A History in Eight Episodes, which describes the origins of the Malays of the Cocos-Keeling Islands. As a curator he is interested in uncovering the connections that link Australia and the countries of South-east Asia and the Indian Ocean.