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1 Growing Flowers I Am the Flower i "I am hearing sounds I shouldn’t", Jennifer Nguyen , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;
1 Room Tour in Flux Jennifer Nguyen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Everything, All At Once : Fiction and Poetry from 30 of Australia's Best Writers under 30 2021; (p. 194-198)
1 October 3rd 2020 i "When I am asked to visualise a meadow", Jennifer Nguyen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 163)
1 Until It Was Memory i "i am grieving for this wolf hole where", Jennifer Nguyen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 243 2021; (p. 60)
1 Jennifer Nguyen Has a Secret, Very Sexy Fetish i "Jennifer Nguyen moves backwards in order to go forward. She cries frequently in order to cry less. Her work", Jennifer Nguyen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Sometimes, Pain Is Just Pain i "You said so yourself. So forgive me, these smiling tears.", Jennifer Nguyen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 99-101)
1 y separately published work icon When I Die Slingshot My Ashes onto the Surface of the Moon Jennifer Nguyen , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927950 2019 selected work poetry

''Poetry is / can / be anything … everything,' says When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon. She is sleepy, but they cannot sleep. It is 4:44 a.m. loneliness, this restlessness. The soft hue of blue from the TV bathes the room via a 24/7 lo-fi livestream. ‘Poems are troubled into existence’ – When I die, she read that somewhere, but cannot remember where, but it has stayed, it is the underpinning of this book and all that contains with/in/out. Where did these bruises come from? The heart, the brain, the heart, the soul? How do I live? How do I keep on living? I don’t know, is the honest answer. I must, is the honest honest answer.'

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1 Untitled i "Wax melted and puddled underfoot", Jennifer Nguyen , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Literary Nillumbik Anthology of Writing 2017 2017; (p. 24-25)
1 Lamington.mp3 i "Electric mixer beat.", Jennifer Nguyen , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 23 2017; (p. 113)
1 To Me, She Will Always Be Lia Jennifer Nguyen , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 1 2017; (p. 10) Lia goes through phases. Right now, she's obsessed with Lana Del Rey. She does her hair pi-up style ans gets her nails done. I watch her type. It's impractical, but she doesn't seem bothered - she types as efficiently as you or I would. All day and night, the apartment is filled with Lana Del Ray interspersed with the soulful crooning of Billie Holiday. I don't listen to Jazz and don't know much about it, but their is one track I've become fond of =. Until I heard it, I never knew I needed such a song in my life. (introduction)
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