poems
SEAMS : TRACES (poems for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, commissioned by Dead Women Poets Society, Aug 2020)
Deep Autumn 深秋 (commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Aug 2020)
Sixteen Lessons in Italics (Stasis Journal, May 2020)
Living Portrait of a Tree (Commissioned by Southbank Centre, April 2020)
Hanging Bell Tree, platanus x acerifolia (Commissioned by Hayward Gallery; the poem is currently on display beside a London Plane Tree on Queen's Walk on London's South Bank)
Waves (Ache issue #3: Abrasion, March 2020)
Mixed Girl's Hakka Phrasebook (Islands Are But Mountains: new poetry from the United Kingdom, Platypus Press, 2019)
"The Harbour" (Pain issue #3, 2019)
Conversational Chinese (Harana Poetry, June 2019)
Return to Cloud Mountain (Hainamana Arts, June 2019)
Letter from Shanghai, 1938 (Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, May 2019)
April Kōwhai (New Zealand Poetry Shelf, May 2019)
The First Wave (National Poetry Library's Poem of the Day, Mar 2019)
Ode to a Honey Pomelo (Amberflora: Issue 5, Dec 2018)
Three poems in response to Oceania (Hainamana Arts, Nov 2018)
Cellophane Heart (wildness, No. 16, 2018)
Last Eclipse (Poetry School/Nine Arches Press Primers Shortlist, 2018)
Three poems (Starling, Issue 6, Jul 2018)
Styrofoam Love Poem (New Zealand Poetry Shelf, 2018)
Best New Zealand Poems 2017
in the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049 (AAWW's The Margins, 2018)
Yellow Fragments (Hotel, 2018)
Love letter in lotus leaves (Daikon Issue 4: Food, 2018)
Some titles for my childhood memoir (POETRY, 2018)
Spring Onion Pancakes (Rambutan Literary, 2018)
Dreaming in a Language I Can't Speak (Shanghai Literary Review, 2017)
The city of forbidden shrines / Forest City (Alluvium, 2017)
The Great Wall (2016) (The Pantograph Punch, 2017)
Kitchen haiku (NZ Poetry Shelf, 2017)
GIRL WARRIOR, or Watching Mulan in Chinese with English Subtitles & The First Wave (Shabby Doll House, 2016)
mother tongue 母语 (Scum Mag, 2016)
What it tastes like (Sweet Mammalian 3, 2016)
Miyazaki bloom (Starling, 2016)
The ghost at the school dance (Atticus Review, 2016)
If Katherine Mansfield were my best friend & Katherine Mansfield Park (Starling, 2016)
Red series & Shipwrecker (Turbine | Kapohau, 2016)
Whale fall (Sweet Mammalian 1, 2015)
Volcanology (Best New Zealand Poems 2014)
Deep Autumn 深秋 (commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Aug 2020)
Sixteen Lessons in Italics (Stasis Journal, May 2020)
Living Portrait of a Tree (Commissioned by Southbank Centre, April 2020)
Hanging Bell Tree, platanus x acerifolia (Commissioned by Hayward Gallery; the poem is currently on display beside a London Plane Tree on Queen's Walk on London's South Bank)
Waves (Ache issue #3: Abrasion, March 2020)
Mixed Girl's Hakka Phrasebook (Islands Are But Mountains: new poetry from the United Kingdom, Platypus Press, 2019)
"The Harbour" (Pain issue #3, 2019)
Conversational Chinese (Harana Poetry, June 2019)
Return to Cloud Mountain (Hainamana Arts, June 2019)
Letter from Shanghai, 1938 (Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, May 2019)
April Kōwhai (New Zealand Poetry Shelf, May 2019)
The First Wave (National Poetry Library's Poem of the Day, Mar 2019)
Ode to a Honey Pomelo (Amberflora: Issue 5, Dec 2018)
Three poems in response to Oceania (Hainamana Arts, Nov 2018)
Cellophane Heart (wildness, No. 16, 2018)
Last Eclipse (Poetry School/Nine Arches Press Primers Shortlist, 2018)
Three poems (Starling, Issue 6, Jul 2018)
Styrofoam Love Poem (New Zealand Poetry Shelf, 2018)
Best New Zealand Poems 2017
in the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049 (AAWW's The Margins, 2018)
Yellow Fragments (Hotel, 2018)
Love letter in lotus leaves (Daikon Issue 4: Food, 2018)
Some titles for my childhood memoir (POETRY, 2018)
Spring Onion Pancakes (Rambutan Literary, 2018)
Dreaming in a Language I Can't Speak (Shanghai Literary Review, 2017)
The city of forbidden shrines / Forest City (Alluvium, 2017)
The Great Wall (2016) (The Pantograph Punch, 2017)
Kitchen haiku (NZ Poetry Shelf, 2017)
GIRL WARRIOR, or Watching Mulan in Chinese with English Subtitles & The First Wave (Shabby Doll House, 2016)
mother tongue 母语 (Scum Mag, 2016)
What it tastes like (Sweet Mammalian 3, 2016)
Miyazaki bloom (Starling, 2016)
The ghost at the school dance (Atticus Review, 2016)
If Katherine Mansfield were my best friend & Katherine Mansfield Park (Starling, 2016)
Red series & Shipwrecker (Turbine | Kapohau, 2016)
Whale fall (Sweet Mammalian 1, 2015)
Volcanology (Best New Zealand Poems 2014)
