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Publications by Robert Bal, Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Alt-text: The black and white front cover of Protection, a Poetry collection by Robert Bal.
​Protection
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Released 30th November, 2022
72 pages
978-1-915079-46-6

In this collection, Robert Bal interrogates on-going and belated conditions he names “the imperial benign.” Protection is both a work of aftermath and an intense succession of colonial instants, scenes or sensations experienced in the United Kingdom, though processed (felt) elsewhere. With deep care, Bal marks the transposition between external forms of oppression and their internalization, tracking the fact of otherness, the poesis of cultural deletion, into the felt or bodily zone, the experience of being subaltern to “the culture of the kill".
Protection is available to buy via the Broken Sleep Books website 
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and via select booksellers
A reading given for the Broken Sleep Books online launch of Protection
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​Praise for Protection:

This is a book of its time, a world time or moment that is examining the origin and expression of colonial violence in all sectors. Hope, in some form, comes in the very last moments of the book: the warm sunlight, a natural setting, and the words “there can be no other side to this but love."

   - Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
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​An interview with Robert Bal about Protection ​
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​​​I live, work and grow on the stolen ancestral lands of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. 

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​My intent is to travel with care while I am here and to be part of the healing journey being undertaken by those who belong to these lands.


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