Foreigners in Me (Paperback)

A world-wandering Japanese performance poet, Hideto Ambiguous, explores the ambivalent consciousness of a ‘global citizen’ who simultaneously identifies with the predominant and the precarious in his first poetry collection. His brutally honest and intimate confrontation with ‘foreigners’ in himself touches upon diverse topics such as globalization, democracy, language barriers, loneliness, homelessness, feminism, love, fringe festivals, flower bulbs, Earl Grey, shooting stars, and poetry. The book welcomes anybody who dares to unfold the modern paradox of shallow connection and deep division’ in our global theatre of fear from a lyrical and critical perspective of in-betweenness. Hideto is the winner of the Liverpool Slam Headliners 2018 (UK) and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Award in Best Words and Ideas 2019 (AUS). His poetry is praised as ‘lovely and soul-baring, flirting with the edges of provocation” by theatre view (NZ).