From September 28 @ 1:00 pm Laura Jane Lee Natalie Linh Bolderston Cheng Tim Tim Moderated by Sarah Howe Can one write poetry without thinking or caring about society? How does reality find its way to the poet’s page? What …
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Breaking Down Stereotypes
From October 2 @ 11am (HK time 6pm) Annie Fan Antony Huen L Kiew Daryl Lim Moderated by Prof Eddie Tay. How can poetry help break down unjust stereotypes and bring about a greater sense of equality? From translating and …
Found in Poetry: Language, Home & Self (co-hosted with SOAS)
From October 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Moderator: Cosima Bruno, SOAS Mary Jean Chan Nina Mingya Powles Theo Kwek How do poets translate and articulate themselves as bilinguals? How do they rediscover their authentic inner selves and reveal—with …
The Mapping of Desire
From October 3 @ 12pm The Mapping of Desire Nicholas Wong Lady Red Ego Jinhao Xie Moderated by Annie Fan How does a writer approach questions of gender and sexual identity in this day and age? How do we go …
Voices in Hong Kong (with Asian Review of Books)
From October 2 @ 1pm A reading and discussion with Eddie Tay Jason Lee Dave McKirdy Collier Nogues Moderator: Melanie Ho, contributor to Asian Review of Books Join us for a lunch time panel on poetry and conversation, with some of …
Cultural Hybridity (with British Chinese Studies Network)
From September 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm A reading and discussion with Will Harris Jay Ying Helen Bowell Moderated by Dr Lucienne Loh What is hybridity? Are we not all in a sense hybrid? Lucienne Loh talks to …
Experimental Poetics
From September 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (UK time) In Conversation with Dorothy Wang Marilyn Chin Jane Wong Jay Ying Marilyn Chin, Jane Wong and Jay Ying share and discuss with Prof Dorothy Wang their poetry and approach …
Writers & Migrants
From September 25 @ 7pm A reading and conversation with Marilyn Chin Mary Jean Chan Jennifer Wong Moderated by Prof Robert Hampson What challenges do poets face as migrants? These three poet-migrants from Hong Kong read and discuss their work …
Writing from Hong Kong: Language and Place-making (co-hosted with Asian Cha)
From September 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm A reading and discussion with Felix Chow Akin Jeje Marco Yan Kate Rogers Moderated by Tammy Ho, founding editor of Asian Cha How does poetry reflect or (re)define ‘place’ in a …
Place & Displacement (a Wasafiri event)
From September 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm A reading and discussion with Sarah Howe Sean Wai Keung Fiona Sze-Lorrain Moderated by Malachi McIntosh, editor of Wasafiri Having lived through experiences hugely different from that of their parents’, how …