ArLiJo (The Arlington Literary Journal)
2025
Audience & performer
—string—games—
Stones, bones

bad apple gay
2022
Speak its name

bath magg
2021
I am everyone’s gay BFF and I’ve earned unfettered access to all your ruby slippers

Best New Zealand Poems
2013
Astronaut
2017
Like a queen
2018
The compulsive liar’s autobiography
2020
Ghost poem #3—The other side of the glass
2022
What’s fun until it gets weird?

Cha
2009
Deracinate
2013
Por Por

Cordite Poetry Review
2015
Belated backstory
2018
Female impersonator holding long gloves
2023
X / O / X
2024
Queerbaiting: The Musical

Hong Kong Protesting
2021
Bilingual (Occasional)

The Hong Konger
2025
Body of work—Marsden Hartley
Forbidden
BRAT by Charli XCX by Chris Tse

Love in the Time of Covid
2022
Ventura
Reflex
A poem about being kidnapped like that Ryan Reynolds movie, but no one makes any money or wins awards for surviving this ordeal

New Kid
2018
Nights alive

The New Zealand Poet Laureate Blog
2022
~~~the longest wave~~~
2023
Number 13

New Zealand Poetry Shelf
2014
The Saddest Song in the World (excerpt)
2016
Notes for Taylor Swift, should she ever write a song about me
2020
Ghost poem #3—The other side of the glass (also selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2020)
Identikit
2023
Midnight, somewhere
Hearts unfold
2023 & Other Poems
2025
Lines composed less than a mile from the nearest Kum & Go

The Pantograph Punch
2017
Distinguishable by Ear: New Zealand Writers on Voice
Originally Sung: New Zealand Writers on Lyricism
Have You Heard This One?: New Zealand Writers on Tension
2018
The saddest song in the world (full)

Peril
2019
Pedestal Triptych

Poetry
2018
I.R.L.

Queen Mob’s Tea House
2015
Present tension

Radio New Zealand
2023
It wasn’t a phase, Mum—I still listen to Celine Dion

Red Room Poetry
2023
The time traveler’s memoir

Remake
2022
Now

Snorkel
2013
Astronaut (also selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2013)

The Spinoff
2016
The poet who wore a swan
Chris Tse and His Imaginary Band
Selfie with landscape
2018
Release
2019
The Magician—Notes on distraction
2020
(Turquoise: Magic & Art)

Sport
Chinese Colours
Chinatown/Montreal
MacGuffin

Starling
2017
No girl so sweet

Sweet Mammalian
2014
Retreat
2025
The last poem

Turbine | Kapohau
2005
Uncle Willie
Raw Ingredients
Chinatown/Toronto
2009
Emergency procedures
2013
Artist’s impression of the poet is not drawn to scale 
2014
The waiting game
Where you will—drink to this
2015
Tonight, Matthew
2017
This is how it started—Three cautionary tales
2020
Photogenesis
Abandoned acceptance speech for Outstanding Achievement by a Chinese New Zealander in the Field of Excellence
2023
Your uncle’s story
Search history
2024
Golden shovel for shit-stirrers

Wasafiri
2020
Performance Art for The End of The World