CONTRIBUTORS

W. H. Chong

W. H. Chong paints and writes, and is the design director of Text Publishing. His 2023 book Portraits collected 300 of his pictures, and his painting of Michelle de Kretser is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. You can find his work on Instagram @w.h.chong

4 Liǔ Zōngyuán Translations by W. H. Chong

Image: Detail from “Snowscapes along Yangtze river (長江積雪圖)”, after Wang Wei OCCASIONAL POEM ON A SUMMER’S DAY The fierce heat of the south—deep drunken sleep, the north window open Silence at midday—but for a farmhand past the bamboo pounding tea …

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Neutrino Snow Over Kingston

The sky tonight! is white Unseamed light, seamless time unboundaried— the moon’s blank disguise clockface sans figures & hands whitely drifting in white space The winking snow of neutrinos linking you 2 me , Donne’s flea quantum leaping, trillion biting …

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Hakka Land

Hakka were Yellow River people but never claimed the place, foolishness is its own reward, we were dubbed Hak Ka, 客家 Guest Family, forever without place-name and fixed address, we were unwelcome guests, butchered and un- digested over centuries from …

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