Nicole Raziya Fong : part one

Nicole Raziya Fong is a writer living in Montréal. Her work seeks to delimit and re-construct immaterial ampules of psychic experience, coaxing the incorporeal into inhabiting a more muscular physique. Her chapbook, Fargone (2014), was published as part of the Poetry Will Be Made By All project. Past work has appeared in publications including Cordite, Poetry is Dead, and The Volta. PEЯFACT (Talonbooks, 2019) is her first book.

What are you working on?

I’m currently grappling with a long, onerous project titled OЯACULE. It’s an imperfectly theatrical channelling of psychic mutability, suffering and feminine resistance. It’s onerous in the sense that it’s being written alongside a process of uncovering traumatic memory, difficult in that I’m trying to maintain an equivalent level of hiddenness while implementing a legibility of my own making. I’ve always had more of an interest in the workings of language and how certain convergences might reveal or conceal something ordinarily untouchable; it’s something I’m trying to access in this work.