That Poetry Thing: Belle Ling (HK) and Es Foong (VIC) + open mic
Schedule
Mon Aug 25 2025 at 09:00 am to 11:00 am
UTC+10:00Location
Smith's Alternative | Canberra, CT
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$5/10That Poetry Thing presents: Belle Ling (HK) and Es Foong (VIC) plus open mic
Es Foong is a poet and spoken word performer grateful to live on unceded Wurundjeri land. They write about estrangement and belonging, hunger and delight. Their collection “Clot and Marrow” is available from Recent Work Press. They want you to know that you are a wild, precious and unique expression of possibility and you are cherished. Find them at waffleirongirl.com.
- “Clot and Marrow is an assassination of outdated ideas of gender.” - Gemma White, Westerly Magazine
Belle Ling was born and grew up in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia. She is a Co-Winner of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, a Fellowship Awardee by the Playa Residency in Oregon, and a Lucy Morris Stevens Scholar awarded by the Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland. Her first poetry collection A Seed and a Plant was shortlisted for The HKU International Poetry Prize; her poetry manuscript Rabbit-Light was highly commended in the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize (2018); her other poetry manuscript Grass Flower Head was shortlisted for the First Book Poetry Prize of Puncher and Wattmann and a semi-finalist for The Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry. Her poems have been widely shortlisted and highly commended in different contests, including the Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Award, the Atlanta Review’s International Publication Prize, the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, the International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology Place Award, and the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition. Her works could be found in World Literature Today, Chicago Quarterly Review, the Australian Book Review, the Atlanta Review, Cordite Poetry Review, and others. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland and a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. She is now working as a creative strategist in Guild HK: https://guildhk.com/.
Sign up on the night for the open mic, each open mic poet has three minutes.
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Where is it happening?
Smith's Alternative, 78 Alinga St, City ACT 2601, Australia, CanberraEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
