es foong is a poet and performer grateful to live on unceded Wurundjeri land. They write about estrangement and belonging, hunger and delight. Their poems have appeared in publications like Rabbit Poetry, Kalliope X, Best of Australian Poems 2022 and long-listed in the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize 2023. They’ve featured on stages including Queensland Poetry Festival 2022 and Canberra Poetic City 2023.
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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“Clot and Marrow is an assassination of outdated ideas of gender...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.”
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