EIGHT HONG KONG POETS: Leung Ping-Kwan, Jennifer Wong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David McKirdy, Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Eddie Tay, Timothy Kaiser &amp; Sarah Howe. Through world wars, revolutions and colonial diasporas, Hong Kong has welcomed people from all parts of China and all over the world. In such a mix, poets find a home that inspires and provokes in equal measure. Hong Kong poetry in English has been very much a story of poets who go, come, return and sometimes are in several places at once. Yet in all this moving about, something of Hong Kong always remains even, or especially, when all other influences are peeled away. People who know Hong Kong will recognise it instantly. EIGHT HONG KONG poets is an anthology of contemporary Hong Kong poetry in English and includes selections from published works of both venerated elder statesmen of the form and acclaimed newcomers.

Eight Hong Kong Poets

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Chameleon Press Ltd

Mani Rao's poetry has featured in anthologies by Penguin, WW Norton and Bloodaxe, and has been translated into French, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. She lives between India, Hong Kong and the USA. Ghostmasters is her eighth book, and collects poems published in: Zoland Poetry, XCP, Washington Square, Wasafiri, Tinfish, Softblow, Indian Literature, Almost Island, 91st Meridian and other journals. Advance praise: Mani Rao is an endlessly interesting poet, and in Ghostmasters the full range of her talent is on display. The people, places, and things that haunt this book have their own special expressions, which reveal dark and delightful truths. Watch your step! -- Christopher Merrill Mani's poems are death-defying acts of language, more daring than love-poems because they are unafraid to let love go, to release the self from itself. Lost to rediscovered words, miscommunications, fading memories, frogs and natural orces are arranged and rearranged here into new and devastating ways of seeing and thinking about our lives. -- Cyril Wong For several years, Mani Rao has been cutting her own fiercely singular path through the thickets of our language; with each new book her compositional values become both more light and more precise, and her gestures-for this is a poetry of intense ellipsis-more sure, more instantaneous, more stunning. -- Vivek Narayanan There's an uncanny lightness in Mani Rao's poetry, a buoyancy that lifts the reader weightlessly to a safer place. Again and again in this wonderful book, I'm moved and gratified by the effortlessness of Rao's obedience, even as she attends the language with devoted attention. -- Claudia Keelan

Ghostmasters

Rao, Mani

In January 2011, Harvard Professor Harry Lewis gave a series of four talks and lectures in Hong Kong, anchored by an invitation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong as Sir Run Run Shaw Visiting Scholar. The four lectures gathered in this volume are: "Approaches to General Education": Lee Hysan lecture, delivered at Chinese University of Hong Kong "Civic Education in the Information Era": Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Lecture delivered at Shaw College, Chinese University of Hong Kong "The Future of Ignorance": delivered at City University of Hong Kong "Idea economy": delivered at the Asia Society Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He served as Dean of Harvard College from 1995-2003. He is the author of "Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?" and coauthor of "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion"

Education, Books and Society in the Information Age: The Hong Kong Lectures

Computers & Technology

Lewis, Harry

Graphics & Design

ANCESTRAL WORSHIP is a homage to my adopted city. Hong Kong has always been a city of immigrants and I am simply one more who has been welcomed and made the city my home. This new collection deals with the Hong Kong of my youth and my relationship with the modern-day city that I have grown up with. Some of the pieces tackle the relationship between the colonisers and the colonised in British Hong Kong during the 1960s and 70s, when it was still a colony with a capital C and inequality and unfairness was rife. Other poems tackle how attitudes and approaches changed from the late 1960s onwards, coinciding with my own teenage years and political and social awakening. "Ancestral Worship pays tribute to the power of memory, to overcome loss, grief, and the ability of words to remember and revive, whether the shadow of a cherished city, or the silhouette of deceased loved ones." -- Agnès Bun in The Asian Review of Books "What sets McKirdy ... apart is his ability to stay away from the rose-tinted visions that are easily available to a social group being elevated into positions of power and prestige for decades" -- Clarence Tsui in the South China Morning Post

Ancestral Worship: Poems

McKirdy, David

Selections from April-June 2014: Reviews, essays, excerpts -- In addition to reviewing books about or of relevance to Asia, The Asian Review of Books also features essays by leading Asian writers and thinkers and excerpts from recently-published books, providing an unparalleled forum for discussion of key contemporary issues by Asians for Asia and a vehicle of intellectual depth and breadth where leading thinkers can write on the books, arts and ideas of the day.

Asian Review of Books, Volume 1, Number 1: July 2014

History & Criticism