Es Foong is a poet, flash-fictionista and spoken word artist. She lives and learns in Naarm (Melbourne).
Clot & Marrow
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Es Foong’s debut collection explores the strange geographies of belonging: to family, gender, culture and oneself. It explores influences on identity and the fault-lines of trauma, how these are woven into our bodies. It sees the power and the possibility of the pause – as breath, silence, a poem’s whitespace – and as an alternative way of being, survival and love.
Published by Recent Work Press.
“Clot and Marrow is an assassination of outdated ideas of gender... Through words, Foong will love you back into being by sharing lived experience that hits home like a broken bone popping out of skin.”