time difference

by Jennifer Wong

Living in the liminal space between time differences, here is a poet’s world of emotions, as she navigates an unfamiliar landscape of in-betweenness and otherness –from her writing desk to a walk around the most mesmerising lake in Beijing – where words are always out of reach.

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2024

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

[Sam Powney · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great mini-collection from influential poet Jennifer Wong. 'time difference' hops between years and locations (Hong Kong, London, Leipzig, Japan, Beijing), investigating the often unsettling temporality of lifestyles, relationships, and identity. In doing so, these poems tenderly illustrate the familiar emotional distension of straddling time zones, encapsulating the lived experience of perpetual otherness.