Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation (2008) Mare's blood is red -

Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability

with the previous volume for 2009 having been published worldwide by TASCHEN

The one whose name she doesn't even know

Though every inch of him resists

making love with scrabble tiles is about love with language

Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation (2008) Mare's blood is red -Cyril Wongs latest collection of poems brings into play his background in music. Reminiscent of a concerto, an orchestra is invoked by poems that celebrate the lives of lovers distant and near, while a single narrative arises like a solo instrument amidst their chords, often blurring a distinction between the universal and the particular. This narrative is a love story that pierces through the shadow of the inevitable, accompanied by dreams and a re