Highly Commended Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Prize (2022)
Shortlisted, WA Premier’s Book Award (2022)
Australian Book Review Books of the Year (2021)
“Ranging across continents, cultures and languages, Vociferate is a bold poetic venture, grounded in the multiple and the eclectic, from classical music to popular film, from literature through ordinary suburban living. No subject, no assumption, is left untouched by Emily Sun’s ironic, questing visions. She is a genuinely new and distinctive presence in Australian poetry” — Tracy Ryan
“Every poem here is like a little grenade, sometimes filled with sizzling rage, sometimes wry humour, but always with expansive wit and erudition. Vociferate is polemical, personal and political. Be prepared to be blown away!” — Alice Pung
“She’s the ‘Wandering Minstrel in Translation’… This is Australian poetry too, with suburban settings providing material for many of the scenarios.” — Australian Book Review
“Read this book from beginning to end, and then read it again…” — Westerly
“These poems hit like sharp little bullets.” — ABC Radio
“Emily Sun’s cultural-presumption-shredding Vociferate | 詠.” — John Kinsella
“Vociferate touches its reader with its tenderness and sparkling sense of humour…” — Writing WA
“Emily Sun traverses continents and cultures in a daring poetic venture…” — WA Premier’s Book Award Judges
“There is a quiet rage in the poems as well as a terrible beauty..”. — Tony Hughes-D’Aeth