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Steam rises from bowls of noodle soup, tender steaks are seared in butter, sand-roasted chestnuts are shared from a paper bag. Suyin Du Bois's Eating Air is a mouth-watering book of poems about food, belonging and connection. Charting a journey across cuisines and continents, these poems carve into the author’s dual Chinese-Malaysian and Belgian heritage and food’s enduring role in our cultural, familial and personal histories. From the low stools of Penang’s kopitiams to the bright lights of London’s Chinatown, Eating Air is a love song to food and a poignant catalogue of its profound capacity to serve up memory, language, and longing.

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Suyin Du Bois is a poet and startup co-founder of Chinese-Malaysian and Belgian heritage, living in London. Her debut pamphlet Eating Air explores belonging and connection through the prism of food and will be published in July 2026 by The Emma Press. She is a member of the Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective 2024/25.

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