‘The Commonwealth of Amnesia is a highly inventive and moving account of the historical diasporic experience in Australia. Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon unflinchingly calls colonial culture to account, restoring erased voices to the historical canon, in this compelling and intellectual exploration of the artform. It’s rare to find a book like this—impossible to ignore, as clever as it is courageous.’

—Judith Nangala Crispin

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a writer and educator working in erasure, cut-up and free verse poetry. Her work has appeared in Rabbit, Cordite and Australian Book Review; and in the anthologies The Best of Australian Poems 2025 and Dear Human, alongside US Poet Laureate Ada Limón. She has won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Poetry Prizes and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The Commonwealth of Amnesia is her third collection, exploring xenophobia and the forgotten histories of Croatian Australians through the medium of erasure poetry.