So I've got this new book ...
Who Comes Calling?
(published by WAPP)
It's got all the old favourites like "Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River", "Searching for Words", and (of course), "Home".
It's also got plenty of the new favourites like "Still Searching", "Catching the L-Words", and "In Memory of Katrina Miles".
Reviews
"As I approach mid-life, and continue to write about the unique experiences of women, I am ever more aware that my entire life has been absolutely nothing like the lives of men ... In her elegant, mature poetic voice, Lo articulates this multifarious experience by examining herself in a great array of roles, including homemaker, wife, mother, friend, teacher, daughter, child, Christian disciple, justice-seeker and revenant, to emotionally moving effect"
—Esther Ottoway, "A Series of Mirrors", Rochford Street Review
"It is [...] glimpses of these different kinds of love, familial, divine, transcendent, love of art and love of community that ultimately give this collection its otherworldly glow."
—Judith Huang, Mascara Literary Review
"This collection is the work of thirty years and is particularly redolent of the very female experience of domestic life, not as bliss or boredom but a full life lived with tenacity and struggle [...] powerful and unflinching."
—Lisa Collyer on Substack
" ... reflects on transnational diasporic experiences [...] agilely switches between places."
—Caitlin Maling for Cordite Poetry Review
Something hungry
in this wide mouth:
a cluster of eyes
greedy with looking;
how a seed can suck
the life out of everything
with its growing
like an idea
that lodges,
a baby in the belly
of the mind.
And the mind!
Imagine it shrinking
into something small,
intense, and rippling
with DNA unzipping,
replicating and then
exploding
out and up
in the slow
time-bomb
that is
a tree.
Read the rest of the poem on my Substack https://miriamweiweilo.substack.com/
#metaphormonday #Illawarraflame #seed #seedpod #poem
Something hungry
in this wide mouth:
a cluster of eyes
greedy with looking;
how a seed can suck
the life out of everything
with its growing
like an idea
that lodges,
a baby in the belly
of the mind.
And the mind!
Imagine it shrinking
into something small,
intense, and rippling
with DNA unzipping,
replicating and then
exploding
out and up
in the slow
time-bomb
that is
a tree.
Read the rest of the poem on my Substack https://miriamweiweilo.substack.com/
#metaphormonday #Illawarraflame #seed #seedpod #poem
One Day I Would Like to Wake Up Perfect
like a green and white kitchen
from Country Living
with art deco curves
and surfaces without a single scratch.
I would like all my ideals to line up
like blue-and-white plates
in a kitchen dresser
and all my behaviour to stack up logically
in an immaculate tower of gilt-edged teacups and saucers.
Read the rest of this poem on my substack miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#metaphormonday #perfect #oneday
One Day I Would Like to Wake Up Perfect
like a green and white kitchen
from Country Living
with art deco curves
and surfaces without a single scratch.
I would like all my ideals to line up
like blue-and-white plates
in a kitchen dresser
and all my behaviour to stack up logically
in an immaculate tower of gilt-edged teacups and saucers.
Read the rest of this poem on my substack miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#metaphormonday #perfect #oneday
Super excited to be part of the MRRWF 2024 line-up this year!
I`ll be running a poetry workshop (Using Poetry`s Superpowers) at the Dunsborough Library Sat 18 May, 2-4pm. Entry is free!
Get tickets here: https://mrrwfestival.com/tickets/42-new-narratives-8-using-poetrys-superpowers-with-miriam-wei-wei-lo/
Check out the other workshops on offer by writers like Emily Tsokos Purtill, @emilytsokospurtill Molly Schmidt, @molly.elizabeth.schmidt Brendan Ritchie, @brendanritchieauthor Kaya Ortiz, @kayak.ortiz Marie O`Rourke, Melody Dia, @emcee.dia and Edith Wright @the.edith.wright
I`ll also be reading at the launch of the Hello Keanu! Poetry Anthology from 6pm - 8pm on Sat 18 May.
This super-fun anthology was spearheaded by Emily Sun @i.am.emily.sun and Sarah Yeung @sairywhy Fabulous Perth poets Alan Fyfe @alan_fyfe_poems and Scott-Patrick Mitchell @spmpoet will be reading too!
Full programme here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/0dd6ad70-6fc6-4421-8d3c-3a462e347d8b
Thanks @artsmargaretriver and @regionalartswa for supporting the New Narratives Programme, Dunsborough Library @busseltonlibrary for hosting, and @wapoets for being my wonderful publisher.
#MRRWF2024
Super excited to be part of the MRRWF 2024 line-up this year!
I`ll be running a poetry workshop (Using Poetry`s Superpowers) at the Dunsborough Library Sat 18 May, 2-4pm. Entry is free!
Get tickets here: https://mrrwfestival.com/tickets/42-new-narratives-8-using-poetrys-superpowers-with-miriam-wei-wei-lo/
Check out the other workshops on offer by writers like Emily Tsokos Purtill, @emilytsokospurtill Molly Schmidt, @molly.elizabeth.schmidt Brendan Ritchie, @brendanritchieauthor Kaya Ortiz, @kayak.ortiz Marie O`Rourke, Melody Dia, @emcee.dia and Edith Wright @the.edith.wright
I`ll also be reading at the launch of the Hello Keanu! Poetry Anthology from 6pm - 8pm on Sat 18 May.
This super-fun anthology was spearheaded by Emily Sun @i.am.emily.sun and Sarah Yeung @sairywhy Fabulous Perth poets Alan Fyfe @alan_fyfe_poems and Scott-Patrick Mitchell @spmpoet will be reading too!
Full programme here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/0dd6ad70-6fc6-4421-8d3c-3a462e347d8b
Thanks @artsmargaretriver and @regionalartswa for supporting the New Narratives Programme, Dunsborough Library @busseltonlibrary for hosting, and @wapoets for being my wonderful publisher.
#MRRWF2024
Good Friday
#goodfriday #church #sacrifice
Good Friday
#goodfriday #church #sacrifice
And then this review!
Thanks @writingwa ... and Will Yeoman for this thoughtful reading and for introducing me to a new word: "durchkomponiert".
The literal German meaning seems to be "through-composed" and the contextual meaning might refer to a kind of free and spontaneous expression.
Read the full review here:
https://www.writingwa.org/for-readers/book-reviews/who-comes-calling/
#wapoets #poetrybookreview
And then this review!
Thanks @writingwa ... and Will Yeoman for this thoughtful reading and for introducing me to a new word: "durchkomponiert".
The literal German meaning seems to be "through-composed" and the contextual meaning might refer to a kind of free and spontaneous expression.
Read the full review here:
https://www.writingwa.org/for-readers/book-reviews/who-comes-calling/
#wapoets #poetrybookreview
What to do with this perfect morning
in a world at war?
Warm sun and crisp air
as the military junta in Myanmar
represses dissidents
with full force
and South Beach
the water so still
as the cycle of violence
in Palestine-Israel
escalates
(how to weigh
the kibbutz rapes and murders
against millions
of starving Palestinians?)
swimming today is like flying
like floating in liquid glass
rainforest in Papua burns
to make way
for palm oil
silver sardines whirl
an underwater mobile
enigmatic as light
Read the rest of the poem on my Substack: https://miriamweiweilo.substack.com/
#metaphormonday #perfectmorning #praiseandlament
What to do with this perfect morning
in a world at war?
Warm sun and crisp air
as the military junta in Myanmar
represses dissidents
with full force
and South Beach
the water so still
as the cycle of violence
in Palestine-Israel
escalates
(how to weigh
the kibbutz rapes and murders
against millions
of starving Palestinians?)
swimming today is like flying
like floating in liquid glass
rainforest in Papua burns
to make way
for palm oil
silver sardines whirl
an underwater mobile
enigmatic as light
Read the rest of the poem on my Substack: https://miriamweiweilo.substack.com/
#metaphormonday #perfectmorning #praiseandlament
Happy World Poetry Day!
#worldpoetryday #hillshoist #bluesky
Happy World Poetry Day!
#worldpoetryday #hillshoist #bluesky
Just when I was wondering if there was anything left to say about Who Comes Calling? ... @nataliednapo pulls this out of her hat ...
Read the full review on @_artshub here:
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-who-comes-calling-miriam-wei-wei-lo-2707708/
#poetrybookreview #poetrybook #wapoets #australianpoetry #asianaustralianpoetry
Just when I was wondering if there was anything left to say about Who Comes Calling? ... @nataliednapo pulls this out of her hat ...
Read the full review on @_artshub here:
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-who-comes-calling-miriam-wei-wei-lo-2707708/
#poetrybookreview #poetrybook #wapoets #australianpoetry #asianaustralianpoetry