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Now available from Anstruther Press | 24 pages
Edited by Jim Johnstone
An earlier version of this poem cycle was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2023 Long Poem Prize
Journal Publications
2025
“He/him.” Best Canadian Poetry 2025, ed. Aislinn Hunter. Biblioasis, forthcoming.
2024
“Admission.” Prairie Fire (forthcoming Summer 2024).
* third place, 2023 McNally Robinson Poetry Award
“Wild ice.” The Ampersand Review 5 (Winter 2024), 10.
2023
“He/him.” Grain 50th Anniversary Issue (September 2023), 85.
“Readiness,” “Confinement,” “SAHM,” and “More echoes.” The Malahat Review 224 (Autumn 2023), 13-16.
* read an interview with Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang about these poems
“Legacy.” This Magazine, May/June 2023.
“Bacillus cereus.” Arc Poetry Magazine 101 (Summer 2023), 48.
“The eldest.” Contemporary Verse 2 46.1 (Summer 2023), 34.
*first place, 2022 Foster Poetry Prize
“How my family ended up in Malaya,” “Personal Effects,” and “Do You Speak English? A Phrasebook for Various Occasions.” EVENT 52.1 (Spring/Summer 2023), 66-70.
“When Lucy clambered into the wardrobe.” Poem in Your Pocket 2023. League of Canadian Poets, April 27, 2023.
*you can hear me read it here (track 5)
“So dark.” Pinhole Poetry 2.1 (April 2023).
“Redaction.” filling Station 80, 15-16.
“Rebuke the Ghosts.” Rattle 79 (Spring 2023), 22-23.
*click above the byline to hear me read it
“Kueh Bangket.” The Malahat Review 221 (Winter 2023), 92.
*shortlisted, 2022 Far Horizons Award for Poetry
“Noncombatant.” Contemporary Verse 2 45.3 (Winter 2023), 10-11.
2022
“Tek tek” (lyric essay). CBC Books (September 2022).
*shortlisted, 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize
“Fontanelle.” The Moth (Autumn 2022), 14.
“heat warning.” The Literary Review of Canada (July-August 2022), 21.
“Journey to the West.” Room 45.2 (Spring 2022), 64.
2021
“Four Feasts.” The Forge (April 25, 2022).
*finalist, 2021 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition
“Dyad.” The Malahat Review 216 (Fall 2021), 8.
“Would You Rather.” The Australian Book Review 428 (January-February 2021), 29.
*shortlisted, 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2020
“Concussion.” Arc Poetry Magazine 93 (Fall 2020), 107-08.
“Mr. T in Your Pocket.” arcpoetry.ca
*winner, July 2020 Arc Award of Awesomeness