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Vuong Pham

Vuong Pham’s poetry explores themes of displacement and cultural identity. One of his poems, ‘Mother’ is studied as a prescribed text in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate English syllabus (2019—2025). His honours include the Frontier Poetry Prize (2025); Bridport Poetry Prize (2025); South Coast Writer’s Centre Poetry Prize (2025); Local Word Poetry Prize (2025); Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize (2024); Shinhaiku Contest (2024); Newcastle Poetry Prize (2023); Free Expression Haiku Competition (2013); and the Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize (2013). He is currently working on his first full-length collection of poetry.

https://vuongphampoetry.wordpress.com

Discipline

A few students in the back rows snicker, pull at their eyes in mockery. Rats in the trenches of desks. My eyes narrowed like a sniper squinting and cleanly taking the shots upon their little bones, scattering their formation through …

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