Es Foong
ES FOONG is a poet and performer living on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. They think and write about strange geographies of belonging, and the power of the pause to offer alternative ways of being. Their poems have appeared in Rabbit Poetry, Kalliope X, Best of Australian Poems 2022 and long-listed in the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize 2023. They’ve featured on stages including Queensland Poetry Festival 2022 and Canberra Poetic City 2023. On-stage, they are the poetic analogue of heavy-metal karaoke. Off-stage, they eat identity labels for breakfast. Their debut poetry collection “Clot and Marrow” is out with Recent Work Press.