‘i am a deepsea fisherwoman, but i do not catch fish’ explores the connections of a personal diasporic family story rooted in the archipelago known as 'the Philippines' and Hong Kong. Across three parts or ‘cantos’, it touches on ideas of metaphysical distance, home yearning, ritual, and radical nostalgia.

Watch the Sydney Opera House online version here.

 

Where the nilads grow

Where the nilads grow is a disruption of a romanticised tale of colonial woe set in Manila, in the archipelago known as ‘the Philippines’. Part of the 2020 Emerging Writers Festival’s Poetry Film Portal. This project was filmed & edited with respect on unceded lands of the Darkinjung, Wangal & Gadigal peoples.

 

Dear Ate

An ode to sisterhood and the women who teach us to be loud, soft and complicated.

 

George’s Town, Pt. 2

A videopoem exploring family, distance and the taste of disappointment.

Audio: ‘November’ by Bensound

 

It takes a community to raise a migrant

My first intentional videopoem, about (re)connecting with community, racism and mental health. It is published in Mascara Literary Review and was screened at Sad and Asian, New York. An earlier version was shown by Kaleido Press at The Commune.

“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence… Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” - Audre Lorde