WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology

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.

About the Author :
Jennifer Wong as born and grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK, Jennifer is the author of several poetry collections including recently 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press) which was named the Wild Card Choice by PBS. Jennifer is currently working on a new collection. She also runs an online poetry series called What We Read Now and also co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology with Jason Lee and Tim Tim Cheng. (VERVE Poetry Press, 2023). Jason Eng Hun Lee is a poet and academic of mixed British and Malaysian Chinese ancestry whose research and practice fields encompass global anglophone literatures, postcolonial and diasporic Asian writing and global Shakespeares. His debut poetry collection Beds in the East was a finalist for the HKU Poetry Prize in 2010 and Melita Hume Poetry Prize in 2012. His poetry, reviews and articles have been published in Wasafiri, Stand, Under the Radar, Acumen, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Oxford Poetry. He is a Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text and chief curator for OutLoud HK [隨言香港], Hong Kong's longest running poetry collective. He is a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Tim Tim Cheng is a poet and teacher from Hong Kong, currently based between Edinburgh and London. Her pamphlet Tapping at Glass is forthcoming with Verve in 2023. Her poems are published or anthologised in POETRY, The Rialto, Ambit, Cicada, Our Time is a Garden, and elsewhere. She has spoken in transnational literary panels across Asia-Pacific regions, the States, and the UK. Her latest appearances include the Hidden Door festival, and Loop, BBC Scotland. Named ‘one of the seven female poets to know in Hong Kong’ by Tatler Asia, she is also a William Hunter Sharpe Memorial Scholarship awardee, WRiCE fellow, and Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship mentee.