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Dark Matter
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.
- GenresPoetry
24 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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About the author
Eileen Chong
23 books23 followersEileen 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 an Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012.
She was the poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust in 2016.
Her poetry collections are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney.
Chong writes about food, family, migration, love and loss. The Singaporean-Australian poet Boey Kim Cheng has said that ‘Chong’s work offers a poetry of feeling, rendered in luminous detail and language, alive to the sorrows and joys of daily living.’
Awards & Achievements
Her books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Anne Elder Award 2012 for a first book, the Australian Arts in Asia Award 2013, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2017, and the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2013 and 2017.
Prizes individual poems of Chong’s have shortlisted for include the Ron Pretty Prize 2014, the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2016, and the Australian Book Review‘s Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2015 and 2017. She also longlisted for the University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor Award 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her poems are widely anthologised in Australian and international anthologies.
She won the Poets Union Youth Fellowship in 2010 and was an Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012.
She was the poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust in 2016.
Her poetry collections are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney.
Chong writes about food, family, migration, love and loss. The Singaporean-Australian poet Boey Kim Cheng has said that ‘Chong’s work offers a poetry of feeling, rendered in luminous detail and language, alive to the sorrows and joys of daily living.’
Awards & Achievements
Her books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Anne Elder Award 2012 for a first book, the Australian Arts in Asia Award 2013, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2017, and the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2013 and 2017.
Prizes individual poems of Chong’s have shortlisted for include the Ron Pretty Prize 2014, the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2016, and the Australian Book Review‘s Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2015 and 2017. She also longlisted for the University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor Award 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her poems are widely anthologised in Australian and international anthologies.
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August 28, 2021Chong ties Dark Matter firmly to the skies, and anchors it just as decidedly in the bedrock of the difficult day-to-day emotions of our own humanity. Whether or not we've lived the precise situation, we know those emotions. My full review is available here: https://essentiallyanerd.wordpress.co...
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