5 poems from Filipino idioms—”How could I know what was coming? / A relief to look up and recognise nothing.”
Author: Ivy Alvarez
is the author of The Everyday English Dictionary (Paekakariki Press, 2016), Hollywood Starlet (dancing girl press, 2015), Disturbance (Seren, 2013). Her latest, Diaspora, Vol. L, is forthcoming from Paloma Press in 2019. Born in the Philippines and raised in Australia, she lived almost a decade in Wales before moving to New Zealand in 2014. www.ivyalvarez.com