Tag: Eileen Chong

December Monthly Blogger – Best Southerly Blogs of 2016

12 December 201613 December 2016 SoutherlyBlog, News

Many thanks to Nic Low for a fantastic month of blogging. To see out 2016, this month we’re featuring some of our most visited blogs posts of the year. We’ll be back in January 2017 with more great blogs and bloggers, beginning with Roanna Gonsalves author of The Permanent Resident. 2016 in review: Luke Beesley, ‘Poets in Cars, An Interview with Nicholas Powell‘ Eileen Chong, ‘Eileen Chong Interviews Eileen Chong‘ Kate Fagan, ‘Into the Interior‘ Liam Ferney, ‘10 outrageous things that happened in poetry in 2015. You won’t believe what number 6 is!‘ Nic Low, ‘The secret history of Australia’s…

Eating and Telling: A Personal Food History

4 July 2016 SoutherlyBlog

Food is serious business. I live in a suburb with so many restaurants that if you went out to eat every night of the week, you wouldn’t be a repeat customer at any establishment for about a month. Once, when I walked past a restaurant on my way home, I saw a famous food critic sitting at a table alone, his chins deep in his cravat, looking rather severe as the table filled up with plates of food. I didn’t see a notepad; perhaps he was so capable of taking notes in his head, utilising vocabulary such as ‘unctuous’, ‘delectable’,…

Letters

30 June 2016 SoutherlyBlog

by Eileen Chong 23 June 2016 1:44am Sydney, Australia Dearest Joci, Hello! As I’m writing this, you must be in the waiting room of your doctor’s office. I hope the wait isn’t too long. I can’t believe what happened to you, or the fact that five-leaved clovers are so unlucky. Life is a bit of a joke at times. I don’t even know how long it has been since I last saw you. I think it was in 2005 or 2006, in Singapore, when you visited. I still have the wonderful blue and gold swirl mosaic tile you made…

Eileen Chong’s Diary for the Week

21 June 2016 SoutherlyBlog

8 June 2016, Wed It’s the birthday of one of my oldest friends, SH. I remember taking the bus with her to and from school and our many hours hanging out at the tiny suburban mall near our homes. Those days seemed endless, although of course, they were not. Perhaps the young women we were hoping to become were simply growing into themselves, enacting rituals ultimately destined for a larger stage. I’m glad that we are still friends. Okonomiyaki for dinner tonight: a Japanese cabbage pancake filled with carrots, mushrooms and chicken (for tonight), topped with mayonnaise and a Japanese-style…

Eileen Chong interviews Eileen Chong

10 June 2016 SoutherlyBlog

By Eileen Chong Tell me a little about yourself. My name is Eileen Chong and I’m a poet. I’m a bit of an accidental poet – I took Judith Beveridge’s poetry class when I was at Sydney University doing an M. Litt mostly because I was trying to avoid any modules in which I would have to write essays. How long have you been writing poetry? I first started to think that I might be a poet in 2009. Now I realise my relationship with poetry goes much further back than that, to when I was studying poetry in school.…

June Monthly Blogger – Eileen Chong!

3 June 2016 SoutherlyBlog, News

An enormous thanks to Luke Beesley for his excellent and entertaining posts. Our blogger this month is Eileen Chong. Her bio is below. Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014) and Painting Red Orchids (2016), all with Pitt Street Poetry. Burning Rice was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Arts in Asia Award, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Individual poems have also been shortlisted and longlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Prize, and the Ron Pretty Prize. In…

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