Dark Matter
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The intimate details of daily life, the "blood and guts and heart" of the wounds and trauma of personal tragedy and love lost are Eileen Chong's bedrock which she mines with unstinting courage and honesty in this new chapbook Dark Matter. The willingness to be so open and vulnerable lends her work great strength. With heart-rending integrity resolved in a harmony of content and form, this is serious and skillfully crafted work which in its earnest exploration reaches out beyond the personal, towards a higher, life affirming and universal.
Eileen Chong
Eileen Chong is an Australian poet who was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien and Peranakan descent. She is the author of ten books published in Australia and the United States. Major prizes her work has been shortlisted for include the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Her debut book, Burning Rice, is the first poetry collection by an Asian Australian to be studied as part of the NSW HSC English syllabus. Her most recent collection with UQP, A Thousand Crimson Blooms, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. She lives and works on the unceded land of the Gadigal of the Eora Nation. eileenchong.com.au
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