Panda Wong



DIVINE INTERVENTIONS

During breeding season, Melbourne is home to up to 10,000 seraphim, the highest form of angel. However, these sacred creatures can be a hazard to aircraft. Angel strike in one of these engines can cause severe damage to the fan blades & cause the engine to fail. Engine manufacturers test the safety of these engines by firing a high-speed frozen chicken at them while the engine is operating at full thrust.

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Panda Wong Reviews Autumn Royal and Barbara Temperton

Like reverse-engineering a sausage, articulating grief is an impossible task. Autumn Royal’s debut poetry collection The Drama Student (2023) resists this urge for clarity. Instead, she writes towards grief’s inability to be expressed or written, how language scrapes against grief’s edges, a continuation of her practice’s focus on elegy and mourning traditions.

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Keri Glastonbury Reviews Grace Heyer, Panda Wong, Rory Green and Siân Vate

Slow Loris Series 1 slouched onto the scene back in 2018, as a Puncher & Wattmann chapbook series edited by then Newcastle-based (now Bega-based) poet Chris Brown. Akin somewhat to the EP, the slew of titles now accruing on the website remind me of browsing through record bins as an adolescent: Daniel Swain’s You Deserve Every Happiness, But I Deserve More (Series 2, 2019) or Duncan Hose’s Testicles Gone Walkabout (Series 3, 2020) give an indication of the pith and pitch of this welterweight form.

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 4

With the glorious task of commissioning writers for a new collection of sincere, heartfelt writing for Tell Me Like You Mean It volume 4, I found it took longer than usual.

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free meat on a suburban street

Special thanks to Vale, the mentioned friend oscillating from disassociation to despair i try to write a poem & i can’t so i read abt vultures puking & shitting on an NYC couple’s luxury condo in florida & how one …

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