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Flow explores what it is like to carry a precarious identity. Throughout Flow, you’ll find a body that acts and voices that flow as they enter each act. Imaginative, lyrical, elegiac, experimental... these are poems of yearning and grief, of rejection and acceptance, of body and obsession, of kinship and solitude, of brute and home, of immigration and boundary, of kindness.
To flow is to love and to allow social and emotional complexity to be richly present, but flow can also destroy or deliver cataclysmic consequences when driven by ideology or violence. Chen explores this binary with a rare and beguiling combination of metapoetic wit, heart and disarming political analysis. Aggregate complexity is delivered in deceptively simple lyrics that often test the page as field, exploiting bold enjambments and lineation. – A Frances Johnson
Born and raised in a small town in Fujian, China, Luoyang Chen has been residing on the unceded Noongar land since 2021. Luoyang is interested in 自然 (the unconcealing/it-self), love and dying, lyric I, and ‘O’. He writes poetry.
Green Leaves / Red River is a collaboration between Centre for Stories and Red River. The project supports eight poets from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to publish their first book of poetry. The project also provides editorial fellowships to emerging editors. It has been made possible with funding from the West Australian Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. The series is a collaboration that connects people from different cities with different histories and different experiences, all towards creating a poetic culture that is distinct and unique. With a focus on artistic excellence, Green Leaves / Red River nurtures new voices and supports poets no matter their place in the world. It is a way to share opportunities, to think in an original way, and to continue making poetry visible and valued. We are proud of the work we can do based here in New Delhi and Perth, and acknowledge the traditional owners of both places. Thanks to the readers and dedicated to all the poets out there, Green Leaves / Red River will entertain, intrigue and enlighten you.
To flow is to love and to allow social and emotional complexity to be richly present, but flow can also destroy or deliver cataclysmic consequences when driven by ideology or violence. Chen explores this binary with a rare and beguiling combination of metapoetic wit, heart and disarming political analysis. Aggregate complexity is delivered in deceptively simple lyrics that often test the page as field, exploiting bold enjambments and lineation. – A Frances Johnson
Born and raised in a small town in Fujian, China, Luoyang Chen has been residing on the unceded Noongar land since 2021. Luoyang is interested in 自然 (the unconcealing/it-self), love and dying, lyric I, and ‘O’. He writes poetry.
Green Leaves / Red River is a collaboration between Centre for Stories and Red River. The project supports eight poets from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to publish their first book of poetry. The project also provides editorial fellowships to emerging editors. It has been made possible with funding from the West Australian Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. The series is a collaboration that connects people from different cities with different histories and different experiences, all towards creating a poetic culture that is distinct and unique. With a focus on artistic excellence, Green Leaves / Red River nurtures new voices and supports poets no matter their place in the world. It is a way to share opportunities, to think in an original way, and to continue making poetry visible and valued. We are proud of the work we can do based here in New Delhi and Perth, and acknowledge the traditional owners of both places. Thanks to the readers and dedicated to all the poets out there, Green Leaves / Red River will entertain, intrigue and enlighten you.
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74 pages, Paperback
Published November 22, 2022
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August 8, 2024
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August 8, 2024
Flow is a tease 'the way of life/ a form of the body/ an act/ a movement...can you keep up?
Luoyang Chen 's beguiling debut poetry collection in three acts is a dynamic exploration of the interconnectedness of all matter.
Flow flees 'if she can't run, if her son can't run, then her grandson must run' carrying with him the '(un) written ' language Hokkien that 'Flow has to repeat over and over to remember.'
Flow flys but Flow is grounded when Flow pushes back at the bourgeoisie who 'critique the Cultural Revolution...(as) western propaganda.' Flow tells them to 'f*** off' 'in his country working class people do not drink wine.'
Available from Centre for Stories
#wapoets #lovetoreadlocal2023 #writingwa Writing WA
Luoyang Chen 's beguiling debut poetry collection in three acts is a dynamic exploration of the interconnectedness of all matter.
Flow flees 'if she can't run, if her son can't run, then her grandson must run' carrying with him the '(un) written ' language Hokkien that 'Flow has to repeat over and over to remember.'
Flow flys but Flow is grounded when Flow pushes back at the bourgeoisie who 'critique the Cultural Revolution...(as) western propaganda.' Flow tells them to 'f*** off' 'in his country working class people do not drink wine.'
Available from Centre for Stories
#wapoets #lovetoreadlocal2023 #writingwa Writing WA
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