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Cadence Chung

Cadence Chung is a poet, mezzo-soprano, and composer, currently one of the resident artists at Te Pae Kōkako - The Aotearoa New Zealand Opera Studio (TANZOS). She has released three books: anomalia (Tender Press, 2022), Mythos: an Audio-Visual Anthology of Art by Young New Zealanders, (ed.) (Wai-te-Ata Press, 2024), and Mad Diva (Otago University Press, 2025). She also edits Symposia Magazine and the New Zealand Poetry Society's quarterly magazine, a fine line.

Chinese melody

Teenagers across the street are dissecting the rain-sodden piano. The rain comes down hard, here, harder than anything you’ve seen, any judgement or judgement day or gavel. I’m sure someone in the world is playing the flute. Your eyes in …

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Black Opium

Coleridge wrote his best poems in a poppyseed haze. I’m not sure about those tiles, he said from my bathtub, looking up at the ceiling. I had no idea what he was thinking: my only experience with opium was the …

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