Es Foong is a poet, flash-fictionista and spoken word artist. She lives and learns in Naarm (Melbourne).
Published by the most excellent Recent Work Press. Buy here.
You lead me through strange geographies.
You say, up here the tide
cannot drown our sandwiches.
Es Foong’s debut collection explores the strange geographies of belonging: to family, gender, culture and oneself. It ponders boundaries; the predicament of needing to assert them even as they cause pain and separation. 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.
Clot & Marrow
Margin Doodles (Vol 1) is drenched in maple syrup, is buttered in parentheses. Each poem is a cupcake iced in doodles. Open wantonly, let the contents spill all over your coffee table. If you live right, you'll be finding forgotten Easter eggs under your couch for years to come.
Doodles deliciously and delicately drawn by Frangellina Ferndale-Gawain.
Margin Doodles: A Chapbook
Waffle Irongirl is a digital and performance persona.
On-stage, she is the poetic analogue of heavy-metal karaoke. Off-stage, she eats identity labels for breakfast. She lives online right here.
