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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Who Comes Calling?
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'These poems are the work of thirty years. When I was raising children, poetry was my furtive "sometimes" habit. It seems a miracle to me that I wrote anything at all during that time, but something kept drawing me back to words. It was a way of stopping to take notice of the beauty around me. It was a way to process what was happening: the surprise of loss, and grief. It was a way to keep things, to make them mine. It was a way to share things, to give them to others. Poetry is a kind of work, but it is also a kind of play: a playful work, a working play. I have learned to "let myself" play (as Julia Cameron puts it). Part of the play is dress-ups, trying on different poetic forms: here's the hair-lacquered-into-place-immaculately-ball-gowned villanelle, here's the smart-casual-dressed-for-inner-city-café free verse, here's the so-laid-back-I'm-practically-horizontal prose poem. I am inspired in my play by watching other poets do it. To playfully quote Alvin Pang from "What Happened": "It was vehement. It was egregious. It was somehow / necessary. Accessory."' (Publication summary)

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    • Inglewood, Stirling area, Northern Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: WA Poets Inc , 2023 .
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      • Published 27 May 2023
      ISBN: 9780645517859

Works about this Work

Review of Who Comes Calling? by Miriam Wei Wei Lo 'Jackson' , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2024 2024;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
Book Review : Who Comes Calling?, Miriam Wei Wei Lo Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2024;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry

'Miriam Wei Wei Lo's second poetry collection explores motherhood, immigration, religion and the creative life.'

Caitlin Maling Reviews Dennis Haskell, Maree Dawes, Amy Lin and Miriam Wei Wei Lo Caitlin Maling , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of And Yet... Dennis Haskell , 2020 selected work poetry ; Living on Granite Maree Dawes , 2022 selected work poetry ; Infinite Ends Amy Lin , 2023 selected work poetry ; Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
A Series of Mirrors : Esther Ottaway Reviews ‘Who Comes Calling?’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
'Who Comes Calling? is Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s second collection, described by Lo as “the work of thirty years” spanning “a prolonged child-rearing stretch when my poetry practice was the five minutes I had to spare between folding the laundry and falling asleep.” In the poem ‘Ars Poetica’, Lo reminds us that “Without the woman at the kitchen sink, / nothing is possible”, and exhorts us, “(For goodness sake, pick up a teatowel, start drying!)” Lo captures the twin pull of these competing roles – caring and artistic practice – in the lives of women, and the dispiriting voice of its economic rationalism, in the eponymous poem ‘Who Comes Calling?’' 

(Introduction)          

Judith Huang Reviews Who Comes Calling? by Miriam Wei Wei Lo Judith Huang , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry

'Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s Who Comes Calling? begins with an open hand of a poem, its structure mimicking five uncurling fingers numbering off the things which Australia means to the persona, as a girl growing up in Singapore with family in Australia.' (Introduction)

Judith Huang Reviews Who Comes Calling? by Miriam Wei Wei Lo Judith Huang , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry

'Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s Who Comes Calling? begins with an open hand of a poem, its structure mimicking five uncurling fingers numbering off the things which Australia means to the persona, as a girl growing up in Singapore with family in Australia.' (Introduction)

A Series of Mirrors : Esther Ottaway Reviews ‘Who Comes Calling?’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo Esther Ottaway , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
'Who Comes Calling? is Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s second collection, described by Lo as “the work of thirty years” spanning “a prolonged child-rearing stretch when my poetry practice was the five minutes I had to spare between folding the laundry and falling asleep.” In the poem ‘Ars Poetica’, Lo reminds us that “Without the woman at the kitchen sink, / nothing is possible”, and exhorts us, “(For goodness sake, pick up a teatowel, start drying!)” Lo captures the twin pull of these competing roles – caring and artistic practice – in the lives of women, and the dispiriting voice of its economic rationalism, in the eponymous poem ‘Who Comes Calling?’' 

(Introduction)          

Caitlin Maling Reviews Dennis Haskell, Maree Dawes, Amy Lin and Miriam Wei Wei Lo Caitlin Maling , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of And Yet... Dennis Haskell , 2020 selected work poetry ; Living on Granite Maree Dawes , 2022 selected work poetry ; Infinite Ends Amy Lin , 2023 selected work poetry ; Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
Book Review : Who Comes Calling?, Miriam Wei Wei Lo Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2024;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry

'Miriam Wei Wei Lo's second poetry collection explores motherhood, immigration, religion and the creative life.'

Review of Who Comes Calling? by Miriam Wei Wei Lo 'Jackson' , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2024 2024;

— Review of Who Comes Calling? Miriam Wei Wei Lo , 2023 selected work poetry
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