Unseen Stories of Women: Miriam Wei Wei Lo reviews ‘If There is a Butterfly that Drinks Tears’ by Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

by Admin on February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Gazebo Books 2023.

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon writes poetry from and about the female body.

Her opening collection, First Blood was a gritty exploration of girlhood that challenged cultural expectations of ideal femininity. Her second collection If There is a Butterfly continues to centre female bodily experience, taking pregnancy, birth, and motherhood into her orbit.

A series of mirrors: Esther Ottaway reviews ‘Who Comes Calling?’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

by Admin on November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

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!)”

Dense, lyrical and poetic: Helen Hagemann reviews Against Certain Capture by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

by Admin on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

I once had the privilege of hearing Miriam Wei Wei Lo read her poetry at the State Library of Western Australia and also on the ABC’s Poetica. That seemed so long ago. In fact it was 2004 when her first edition of Against Certain Capture was published by Five Islands Press, in the New Poets 10. The good news is that her book has resurfaced, it’s an identical second edition published by an imprint called the Apothecary Archive.