Lydia Kwa Poetry doctors’ waiting rooms

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‘the guys with hearts the colour of soot’

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Lydia Kwa Poetry doctors’ waiting roomsLydia Kwa was born in Singapore but moved to Toronto to begin studies in Psychology at U of Toronto in 1980. After finishing her graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, she moved to Calgary, Alberta; then to Vancouver, and has lived and worked here on the traditional and the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples since 1992. Kwa has published three books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines, 1992; sinuous,