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Eileen Chong is a Singapore-born Australian poet of Hakka, Hokkien and Peranakan descent. She is the author of ten books published in Australia and the United States. Major prizes her work has shortlisted for include the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Her first book, Burning Rice, is the first poetry collection by an Asian Australian to be studied as part of the NSW HSC English syllabus. Her most recent collection with UQP, A Thousand Crimson Blooms, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. She lives and works on unceded Gadigal land of the Eora Nation. eileenchong.com.au
'Grief shatters our speech and our self. Eileen Chong honours this, yet also elevates the fragment into a capacious poetry, where each shard is whole in itself, connected to others and to the world. We Speak of Flowers is revelatory in its associative clarities, profound in its images and silences, raw, tender and devastating. I relished this astonishing and nourishing book, and will return to it again and again.' Andy Jackson 'We Speak of Flowers is proof positive of Eileen Chong's distinction and musicality as a poet. As a series of fragments built to be shuffled around by the reader, she offers us a welcome chance to sing alongside her in a chorus of sensation and memory.' Alison Whittaker 'In Eileen Chong's kaleidoscopic work of extended elegy, the poet illuminates a spectrum of grief borne in the wake of many losses: of family, of futures and pasts, of language and inheritance. Reconstituted anew with each encounter, We Speak of Flowers crosses and recrosses the precarious spaces of and between memory and dream, history and myth - testing, with restless invention, the limits of ""what the page will hold"".' Bella Li
