Clot and Marrow

<p><em>You lead me through strange geographies.</em></p><p><em>You say up here the tide</em></p><p><em>cannot drown our sandwiches.</em></p><p>Es Foong's debut collection explores the strange geographies of belonging: to family gender culture and oneself. It ponders boundaries; the predicament of needing to assert them even as they cause pain and separation. It explores influences on identity and the fault-lines of trauma how these are woven into our bodies. It sees the power and the possibility of the pause - as breath silence a poem's whitespace - and as an alternative way of being survival and love.</p>