short excerpt of a review of Becoming Someone Who Isn’t in...

Poetry New Zealand by Siobhan Harvey:

"Reading Becoming Someone Who Isn't, I'm reminded of numerous second collections by New Zealand emigre-poets....books which, like Becoming Someone Who Isn't, forlornly but accurately voice the travails of immigration and resettlement. And yet there's something different about Chan's second collection....Becoming Someone Who Isn't paints a different picture:the picture it paints is of expatriate existence as an allusive, rather than definitive undertaking....Given New Zealand readership's long engagement with the works of migrant-writers such as Chan, I'm convinced that Becoming Someone Who Isn't will find a welcome and enthusiastic following amongst the poetry-loving audience."


Thanks, Siobhan. 

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from a review of Becoming Someone Who Isn’t

"The melancholy that runs through this collection is like a fine mist drifting without settling…Chan's poems are clearly acts of survival that transcend these sad places to contemplate the nature of existence….There is a strong sense of narrative lyricism; also a fine balance of levity and seriousness; resignation and hope…."

-Patricia Prime, Takahe


Thanks, Patricia.

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New review of Becoming Someone Who Isn’t

in Magazine, Issue Five can be found at my publisher, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop's
website. Thanks, Raewyn!

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Omnipresent

I was blind.
You are everyone
who made me see.

It is in your nature,
your fast generosity,
to hide nothing,
to disappear in
every beauty.

My father looking
in every night;
the day and
its own bright stars.

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Asia and Pacific Writers Network (Auto/biography Edition)

I have three prose poems in APWN's Auto/Biography Edition edited by Ivy Alvarez. Thanks so much Ivy! Read all the poems and her wonderful introduction to the edition in the link below:

apwn

link to my poems

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Ahead of Us

We are glad to live here,
to be so endless
the days arrive ahead of us,
showing their
enthusiastic mornings,
the hours catching after
one another,
lovers of necessity,
the eyes in every face,
never doubting
when to travel
the many roads
time builds
for us
to begin,
and begin.

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i-outlaw 2.7

This episode of Bob Marcacci's excellent show

features Sheila E. Murphy

and...

- Luc Simonic
- Jill Chan
- CA Conrad
- Joe Green
- Paula Grenside
- Christine Hamm
- Carly Sachs
- Matina Stamatakis
- Mathew Timmons
- Lenore Weiss

Listen here

Thanks so much, Bob and Josh!

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City

Look,
you are still.

What could move
like that most

natural of places,
the city of your eyes,

the lands you discard
like night

now that you've decided
daylight

is the better
companion,

the whole
that beauty lets you see.

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Women of the Web Wide World of Poetry

Check out the Q & A about publishing/editing poetry.

link

Thanks Didi. I appreciate it.

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Blackmail Press 18

I have some poems in the latest issue of Blackmail Press. Features some familiar names in NZ poetry like Michael Steven, Olivia Macassey, Jennifer Compton, Iain Britton, Mary Cresswell, and others. And international poets like Lynn Strongin, Sam Silva, Wendy Howe, David Sanford Brown and others.

Complete list below:

New Zealand Poets

Cedric Mamoe, Helen Tionisi, Andrew Fiu, Mariana Isara, Michael Steven, Olivia Macassey, Christian Jensen, Jill Chan, Jason Morales, Jennifer Compton, Iain Britton, Miriam Barr, Matt Harris ,Annora Gollop, Bernard Kyle, Anna Kaye Forsyth, Chris Parsons, Laura Solomon, David Ingram, Natasha Leafburg, Keith Nunes, Shelly Joyce, Jason Ropitini, Gemma Rowsell, Thane Zander, Mary Cresswell, H.Mark Webster, Grant Goodman, Ashley Goodmon, Nicholas Messenger


International Guests

Ja'net Danielo, Mario Melendez, Jane Williams, Sam Silva, Theresa Edwards, Hector Lopez, Kristin Ong Muslim, Jason Sanford Brown, Lynn Strongin, Mark Murphy, Wendy Howe, Davide Trame, Shiesh Money, Steve Erly, Tom Hamilton, G Patrick Lodge, Gary Beck, David Stavanger


Edited by Doug Poole


Thanks, Doug!

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