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WHERE ELSE - An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology - cover

WHERE ELSE - An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology

Jennifer Wong, Tim Tim Cheng, Jason Eng Hun Lee

Publisher: Verve Poetry Press

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Featuring both established and emerging Hong Kong poets across generations and continents, this unique anthology offers a glimpse into an exciting, diverse range of voices that make up the diasporic imagination of the contemporary Hong Kong poetry community. Adopting a diasporic approach, the anthology encompasses both native Hong Kong writers as well as expatriate and mixed-race voices who were born or have lived in the city.
With a preface from the Hong Kong-born, California-based poet Marilyn Chin and a joint introduction from the co-editors, the anthology sheds light on some poignant, wide-ranging themes such as migration, identity, gender, language, belonging, environment that underpin the city of Hong Kong, a place situated uniquely between the East and the West, in the 21st century. The book also features a selection of artworks from some of Hong Kong's most talented artists, inviting the reader to make connections between the visual images and the text.
Available since: 05/11/2023.
Print length: 160 pages.

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