We Speak of Flowers by Eileen Chong
We Speak of Flowers, Eileen Chong's sixth collection, is a wondrous extended elegy dedicated to her ancestors. Its 101 pieces are a spacious, meditative record of an attempt to make sense of grief in the face of great pain. Chong's interweaving of memory, history and possibility showcases her mastery of poetic form and craft, all the while displaying her signature light touch in exploring the pathos of things. This is poetry that thrums with feeling, of deep connections to place and ancestral roots, and of the search for meaning in a broken world.
Chong, Eileen: - Eileen Chong was born in 1980 in Singapore. She moved to Sydney, Australia in 2007. She won the Poets Union Youth Fellowship in 2010 and was the Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012. She was the poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust in 2016. She has been mentored by the Australian poets Judith Beveridge and Anthony Lawrence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780702268625 |
| ISBN 10 | 0702268623 |
| Title | We Speak of Flowers |
| Author | Eileen Chong |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press |
| Year published | 2025-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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