36 min
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin: Peeling Water Molecules and the Erosions of Movement Parting Words: A New Poetry Review
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What is lost in movement? What do we leave behind when we move from place to place and how do we reconstitute what was lost? And what creates a place, anyways?
These are all questions Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin asks throughout her poetry, questions that lead her to complex revelations on memory, home, and time.
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin (she/her) is a poet and writer of Chinese-Mauritian descent. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Walrus, Brick Literary Magazine, The Malahat Review, Grain, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Poetry Editor at Plenitude Magazine, and her debut poetry collection, Fire Cider Rain, is forthcoming with Coach House Books in Fall 2022. She is currently a graduate student in environmental chemistry at the University of Ottawa, where she works with various projects on the effects of environmental pollutants on living systems & communities.
For this episode, Ng Cheng Hin will be reading three of her recently published poems, "The Lighthouse Keepers of Pointe Aux Sables," which first appeared in Grain volume 49.2, and "Lessons in Southern Water Cycles" and "Circadian Rain," both of which appeared in The Malahat Review number 214.
While Ng Cheng Hin reads, I would urge you listener to focus on the subtle rhythmic patterns that shape her poems, the repetition of themes and images that give the poems – individually and as a collective – a heartbeat, a resonance. Try and locate how the speaker moves freely between place and memory, now and the past, almost as if floating through water and time.
Parting Words is a response to some of the many emerging poetic voices in Canada, and in this series we will highlight poets who, through their words, are contributing in one way or another to the myriad literary movements of the present, and whose works are achievements in and of themselves. In this podcast you will hear poems read by the poets who wrote them, the poets themselves speak about and to those poems, and critical approaches to their writing. Episodes are released every two months or so, so stay tuned for the next episodes of Parting Words: A New Poetry Review.
What is lost in movement? What do we leave behind when we move from place to place and how do we reconstitute what was lost? And what creates a place, anyways?
These are all questions Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin asks throughout her poetry, questions that lead her to complex revelations on memory, home, and time.
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin (she/her) is a poet and writer of Chinese-Mauritian descent. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Walrus, Brick Literary Magazine, The Malahat Review, Grain, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Poetry Editor at Plenitude Magazine, and her debut poetry collection, Fire Cider Rain, is forthcoming with Coach House Books in Fall 2022. She is currently a graduate student in environmental chemistry at the University of Ottawa, where she works with various projects on the effects of environmental pollutants on living systems & communities.
For this episode, Ng Cheng Hin will be reading three of her recently published poems, "The Lighthouse Keepers of Pointe Aux Sables," which first appeared in Grain volume 49.2, and "Lessons in Southern Water Cycles" and "Circadian Rain," both of which appeared in The Malahat Review number 214.
While Ng Cheng Hin reads, I would urge you listener to focus on the subtle rhythmic patterns that shape her poems, the repetition of themes and images that give the poems – individually and as a collective – a heartbeat, a resonance. Try and locate how the speaker moves freely between place and memory, now and the past, almost as if floating through water and time.
Parting Words is a response to some of the many emerging poetic voices in Canada, and in this series we will highlight poets who, through their words, are contributing in one way or another to the myriad literary movements of the present, and whose works are achievements in and of themselves. In this podcast you will hear poems read by the poets who wrote them, the poets themselves speak about and to those poems, and critical approaches to their writing. Episodes are released every two months or so, so stay tuned for the next episodes of Parting Words: A New Poetry Review.
36 min