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Eileen Chong


Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet. Burning Rice (Australian Poetry, 2012) was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award, Australian Arts in Asia Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Her other books are Peony (Pitt Street Poetry, 2014) and Painting Red Orchids (Pitt Street Poetry, 2016). 

Related:

  • Giving Back: On being poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
  • The Planthunter - New Shoots: Eileen Chong

Poems

  • Poems
  • The Library of Names
  • Elementary Chinese
  • NOTICE
  • Mid-Autumn Mooncakes
  • Lu Xun, your hands
  • After the Wreck
  • My own Lucy
  • Banyan
  • Fern
  • Face-washer
  • Windmills
  • Grey Ironbark: Eucalyptus Paniculata
  • Braid
  • Lunch Hour
  • Wurrungwuri, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
  • Wollemi Pine
  • Elizabeth’s Dream

Projects

  • NSW Parliament Poetry Soirée

  • New Shoots: Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

  • Stacks

  • Toilet Doors Poetry 2006

  • New Shoots: A Garden of Poems

  • Seniors' Week: New Shoots Botanical Writing Workshop

  • Eucalyptus Eco-Poetry Project

  • Poetry Object 2013

  • The Disappearing

  • Poems to Share II

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Eileen Chong - The Library of Names.

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~ Jeanine Leane

It’s been too long since I sat on granite in my
Country and thought

Too many years since I breathed this air—
Bunyi-ng—ganha
Felt this dirt—Ngamanhi Dhaagun
Smelt this dust—Budha—nhi Bunan

Listened for the sounds of her words that say
‘Balandha—dhuraay Bumal-ayi-nya Wumbay
abuny (yaboing)’—History does not have the
first claim. Nor the last word.
Nghindhi yarra dhalanbul ngiyanhi gin gu 
‘You can speak us now!’

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