Emily Sun



Invisible Walls: Poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding

The selection of poems we offer here is written by poets participating in a two-year intercultural exchange program between Korean and Australian poets.

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Zombie, brains wanted

brains dried out homogenised tongue I could see it lying there the hollowed coconut on a koh sumat1 beach frozen temporal space. I need the right replacement for my fall-out brain the scoop they took out was a macaque’s monkey …

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Those old sad ballads always meant too much

Wallowing was scripted in melodic minor scales Rising strings to a chorus of climax always made us weep. A kiss must end in marriage some devotion and a little love Resulting in children (sons of course) [never mind the gei …

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Tok pissin’

… if it blinds me … i’ll learn brail if it paralyses me i’ll learn to run if it’s terminal … cremate me … do not resuscitate increase the opioids so I die high closer to the gods No one …

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Doppelgangers Across Lands: 6 Poems by Emily Sun

The poems in Doppelgangers Across Lands are from Vociferate|詠. These poems are inspired by Asian-American feminist poets Marilyn Chin and Wang Ping.

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National Treasures Coming Home

My boss, the head nurse, says she has a collection of Ming Dynasty crockery, Qing dynasty snuff bottles and a Shang 代 bronze tripod vase always filled with fresh pomegranates looted by her ancestors or bought at Sotherby’s for all …

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