Launch of A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong

I dreamed everyone, even my own

mother, had forgotten my name —

Award-winning poet Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories—personal, familial and cultural—that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother–daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging. Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.

Join Harry Hartog Bondi Junction and UQP for the launch of A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong featuring special guests Roanna Gonsalves, Sara M. Saleh, Eunice Andrada and Lachlan Brown.

This event is held by Harry Hartog Bookseller. The event is free but registration is essential.