WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology

by Jennifer Wong (Editor)

Genres: Poetry

252 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2023

About the author

Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, and is the author of two poetry collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press 2013). She studied English at Oxford and received an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the recipient of the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) and earned a PhD on the idea of place and identity in Asian diaspora poetry from Oxford Brookes University. Her work, including poems, reviews and translations, have appeared in various journals including The Rialto, Poetry London, Poetry Review, And Other Poems, Oxford Poetry, Stand, North, Wildness, Cha, Wasafiri, Voice & Verse, Warwick Review and others. Her works have won the runner-up prize at the Bi’an Writers Awards and have been long-listed in pamphlet competitions and National Poetry Competition.

Reviews

[Tara]

trop contente de l'avoir enfin lu!! mes préférés étaient:
ghost tigers (<3)
calendar
island
dealing in numbers
rare on the market
star struck
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[Elaine Struhters · Rating 3.5 out of 5]

A lot of interesting themes in the book. I have never been to China or Hong Kong, but there are still many themes like family and immigration which ring true to a more universal experience. Personally, my favorites were Calendar, new Territories, Border town, dough, reflection, 12 ways of looking at blue, like that and Twin cinema for the dying cinema.