Forthcoming
REPOSE
“Ruins—as in aftermath, as in refuse, as in the rotting and wilted physical landscape—permeate this deft and roving collection of poems. Zhou’s work rests in the fleeting space of bodies in motion, the friction of bodies troubling and inhabiting spaces across planes and distances. Zhou does not attempt to still the movement. Instead she allows it to fold and create its own repetitions, logic and accord. All along the way, Zhou opens up a space for the spectral to exist alongside the ruins. Towards the end of Repose, she writes “All that distinguishes is a reminder there is something still from the secret, accreting.” In this way, Repose loops, billows and folds on itself. With the patience that permeates this entire collection, Zhou simply makes a notation of this accretion and demands nothing else of it. Go slow, this collection suggests and with Zhou guiding us, we can.” — Asiya Wadud
2022 Book Prize
Wendy’s Subway
DECISION
Pamphlet
Slow Loris/Puncher & Wattmann, 2024
Selected previous
Conjure a frame without risk.
○ Book of September, Liminal Magazine, 2023
where I move, shadows up the root
○ Chained pastoral, Ambit, 2022
She liked being rubbed over, secured, stretched around
○ Bright, Gold Prize - Prose, Creative Future Writers' Awards, 2021
scrunched up emphasis of form unravelled
○ Three poems in LUMIN Journal, 2021
in breakneck wanting sunlight position
○ Mouth piece, Overland, 2021
Out — look out here — every out — you saw
○ This is where you hear the echo, Cordite Poetry Review, 2020
How far her hair blows back in the hard head wind of fall
○ Three poems in Datableed, 2020
The information starts as a product of someone else's dream
○ Ghost within the ghost, Gutter Magazine, 2020
(Who moves closer to the distance you are carrying, the circumstance into that distance
○ Body double, Rabbit Poetry Journal, 2019
Misc.
Performing arts criticism for Running Dog, Australian Book Review, Peril.