So I've got this new book ...
Who Comes Calling?
(published by WAPP)
It's got all the old favourites like "Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River", "Searching for Words", and (of course), "Home".
It's also got plenty of the new favourites like "Still Searching", "Catching the L-Words", and "In Memory of Katrina Miles".
Reviews
"As I approach mid-life, and continue to write about the unique experiences of women, I am ever more aware that my entire life has been absolutely nothing like the lives of men ... In her elegant, mature poetic voice, Lo articulates this multifarious experience by examining herself in a great array of roles, including homemaker, wife, mother, friend, teacher, daughter, child, Christian disciple, justice-seeker and revenant, to emotionally moving effect"
—Esther Ottoway, "A Series of Mirrors", Rochford Street Review
"It is [...] glimpses of these different kinds of love, familial, divine, transcendent, love of art and love of community that ultimately give this collection its otherworldly glow."
—Judith Huang, Mascara Literary Review
"This collection is the work of thirty years and is particularly redolent of the very female experience of domestic life, not as bliss or boredom but a full life lived with tenacity and struggle [...] powerful and unflinching."
—Lisa Collyer on Substack
" ... reflects on transnational diasporic experiences [...] agilely switches between places."
—Caitlin Maling for Cordite Poetry Review
Prata, eggs and curry for breakfast, jungle chickens and sea otters at #labradorparksingapore.
A perfect morning out 🌄
#familytime
#tropical
#southeastasia
Prata, eggs and curry for breakfast, jungle chickens and sea otters at #labradorparksingapore.
A perfect morning out 🌄
#familytime
#tropical
#southeastasia
I`m live tomorrow on Radio Fremantle with Valerie Preston ... feeling a bit nervous and excited!
@valeriepreston812 #poetryonair #poetsspeak #wapoets #fremantle
I`m live tomorrow on Radio Fremantle with Valerie Preston ... feeling a bit nervous and excited!
@valeriepreston812 #poetryonair #poetsspeak #wapoets #fremantle
ASAA conference ... that was so much fun!
I got to meet and learn from the most wonderful people AND release my inner nerd.
Huge thanks to the organisers (@de_mystify I know you were one!)
ASAA conference ... that was so much fun!
I got to meet and learn from the most wonderful people AND release my inner nerd.
Huge thanks to the organisers (@de_mystify I know you were one!)
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2024 shortlist!
Ten books to make you think, provoke spiritual growth, and consider how you love God, others, and the beautiful planet we are part of.
@sparklit_australia #christianreading #christianbooks
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2024 shortlist!
Ten books to make you think, provoke spiritual growth, and consider how you love God, others, and the beautiful planet we are part of.
@sparklit_australia #christianreading #christianbooks
brackets
these cupped hands
that hold
(not)thing
everything invisible
that surrounds
and spills over
breathed in
like the air in prayer
breathed out
the missing O
in G-d, m-ther, and sh-ut
waiting for our voices
to call out
Read the rest of this poem at miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#hands #metaphormonday #poem
brackets
these cupped hands
that hold
(not)thing
everything invisible
that surrounds
and spills over
breathed in
like the air in prayer
breathed out
the missing O
in G-d, m-ther, and sh-ut
waiting for our voices
to call out
Read the rest of this poem at miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#hands #metaphormonday #poem
This is why I fell off socials ... reading, reading, reading for @sparklit_australia Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards.
Thanks for the intense shortlist meeting @gjclarke2021 @zoubei_en @michael.collie.180
& Cath!
#christianwriting #christianbooks #christianwritersdownunder #christianreading
This is why I fell off socials ... reading, reading, reading for @sparklit_australia Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards.
Thanks for the intense shortlist meeting @gjclarke2021 @zoubei_en @michael.collie.180
& Cath!
#christianwriting #christianbooks #christianwritersdownunder #christianreading
Experience awe, look again at the world with eyes of wonder, and write poems about what is still beautiful.
Workshop deets:
10am to 12pm Sat 8 June 2024
Civic Square Library, 10 Almondbury Rd, Booragoon
Cost is $12
Tickets here: https://www.melvillecity.com.au/things-to-do/events/whats-on/poetry-workshop-with-miriam-wei-wei-lo
#poetryworkshop #perthpoetryworkshop
@melvillelibrary @wapoets
Experience awe, look again at the world with eyes of wonder, and write poems about what is still beautiful.
Workshop deets:
10am to 12pm Sat 8 June 2024
Civic Square Library, 10 Almondbury Rd, Booragoon
Cost is $12
Tickets here: https://www.melvillecity.com.au/things-to-do/events/whats-on/poetry-workshop-with-miriam-wei-wei-lo
#poetryworkshop #perthpoetryworkshop
@melvillelibrary @wapoets
Fig
What it is to be a tree:
to take root in the ground,
to know a place
by persisting in it,
to be at the mercy
of the weather at all times:
the summer sun,
the driving rain,
to take it in
and make something of it.
What it is to be a tree:
this tree, here,
on this limestone ridge
near the ocean,
shedding yellow leaves
as djeran rain finally comes;
this tree, not native,
but somehow
becoming the place
by persisting in it,
leaf becoming soil
soil becoming leaf.
Read the final stanza on my substack
miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#fig #figpoem #metaphormonday
Fig
What it is to be a tree:
to take root in the ground,
to know a place
by persisting in it,
to be at the mercy
of the weather at all times:
the summer sun,
the driving rain,
to take it in
and make something of it.
What it is to be a tree:
this tree, here,
on this limestone ridge
near the ocean,
shedding yellow leaves
as djeran rain finally comes;
this tree, not native,
but somehow
becoming the place
by persisting in it,
leaf becoming soil
soil becoming leaf.
Read the final stanza on my substack
miriamweiweilo.substack.com
#fig #figpoem #metaphormonday