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Thank you to Asian Cha for publishing this long review of Making Space by Luca Griseri!
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Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19/8 at Yrellag Gallery. With our contributors Mary King Bradley, Lee Boon Ying, Marco Yan, Yam Gong, Yeung Chak Yan, and editor Nicolette Wong. Special thanks to Yrellag Gallery for hosting us and to those who attended the event!
An excerpt from "The Glasshouse and the Footbridge" by Yeung Chak Yan, one of our readers at Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19/8 (Sat), 3pm-430pm, at Yrellag Gallery.
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Yeung Chak Yan was born and raised in Hong Kong. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and a PhD in Linguistics from City University of Hong Kong. She currently lives in Japan, working in the IT industry. Her short stories have appeared in The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong, The Bellingham Review, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories, and Looking Back at Hong Kong: An Anthology of Writing and Art.
"The Narrow Gate (An Archeology of Knowledge)" by Yam Gong, translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse. Yam Gong will read a selection of his poems in Chinese and English at Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19/8 (Sat), 3pm-430pm at Yrellag Gallery.
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Born in 1949, Yam Gong is a celebrated Hong Kong poet whose honors include the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (1997). His other publications include And So Moving a Stone You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (2010) and And So Moving a Stone (Hide-and-Seek-Peekaboo) You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (2022).
"Boar.jpg" by Marco Yan, one of our readers at Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19/8 (Sat), 3pm-430pm at Yrellag Gallery.
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Marco is a Hong Kong-born poet, whose works appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Epiphany, The Scores, Cordite Poetry Review, among other places. He received his MFAs from NYU and HKU. His poetry collection, Whoever Told Me Not to Dive Headfirst Dove Headfirst & Knew the Taste, is a 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalist.
Excerpts from "Forms and the City" by Boon Lee, who will talk about his artwork at Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19/8 (Sat), 3pm-430pm at Yrellag Gallery.
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Boon Lee graduated with a fine arts degree from RMIT (co-run with the HK Art School). He's also a scientist by training, and has retired by the director of the HK Observatory after years of service. In art, Boon is interested in the use of recyclables and readymades as artwork material. His stylist is minimalist and reductionist in the pursuit of colours and forms.
An excerpt from "A Tree Grows in Hong Kong" by Mary King Bradley, who writes about her relationship with space in the city after relocating to HK from the US in 2016. Mary will read at Making Space: A Reading & Convo on 19 Aug (Sat), 3pm-4:30pm at Yrellag Gallery.
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A freelance editor and translator from Chinese into English, Mary holds a MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. Some of her recent translations have appeared in the Hong Kong bilingual anthologies, Writing in Difficult Times (Cart Noodles Press) and By the Trees--San Po Kong (House of Hong Kong Literature).
Thank you to Cha for running this thoughtful review on Making Space!
/// 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 is a formidable endeavour. Seventeen writers are represented, all bar the British poet Neil Douglas with close connections to Hong Kong, with some of them having now left the city. The writers are passionate, all in some manner expressing the vicissitudes of creating and maintaining space, be it to enable personal identity or to retain political agency. Accordingly, the writers create some great imagery, some fine lines throughout both poems and stories, which embody sui generis Hong Kong scenes, sights and sounds, while the inclusion of five of Boon Lee’s vivacious artworks serve to further amplify these. ///
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Interview about Making Space: A Collection of Writing and Art in Mingpao Daily (04/06/2023).
Making Space is available at Kubrick Bookstore, 序言書室 Hong Kong Reader Bookstore, and 見山書店 Mount Zero.
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【明報專訊】Making Space（創造空間）。把書題反過來理解，就是本無空間的意思。這裏是香港。這裏是全球人口密度排行第四的城市。人均居住面積不足200平方呎的壓沙甸魚式經驗，構成了整本結集的基調。19位本地外地創作者....
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Book launch at Kubrick@1/F Broadway Cinematheque on 23 April. Featuring contributors Paola Caronni, Jennifer Eagleton, Lee Chi Leung, Sonia FL Leung, Jocelyn Li, Marco Yan, and editor Nicolette Wong. Moderated by Polly Ho & Atom Cheung from Kubrick Poetry Society.
Making Space: A Collection of Writing and Art edited by Nicolette Wong (with support from Kubrick Poetry Society). Cover design by Zac Choy. Published in Jan 2023.
//How do we situate ourselves when we navigate the city of Hong Kong—physically, and in our minds? From the challenges of limited living space and the quest for personal space, to the everyday negotiations of our identities in the social space, we are constantly confronted with the question: How do we redefine the distance between the city, others, and ourselves, and between the selves within us?
This collection features prose, poetry and artwork from writers and artists in or from Hong Kong, as well as those who have had a close connection with the city, that explore the (im)possibility of making space. Special thanks to our contributors: Mary King Bradley, Paola Caronni, Cheng Tim Tim, Karen Cheung, Neil Douglas, Jennifer Eagleton, Irisa Kwok, Boon Lee, Lee Chi Leung (tr. Stella Zhang), Sonia FL Leung, Jocelyn Li, Mathura, Ilaria Maria Sala, Shahilla Shariff, Yam Gong (tr. James Shea & Dorothy Tse), Wong Yi (tr. Jennifer Feeley), Marco Yan, and Yeung Chak Yan.//
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Looking Back at Hong Kong: An Anthology of Writing and Art is on sale at Amazon.
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Looking Back at Hong Kong: A Reading & Convo with Writers of/from Hong Kong (October 2021).
A reading & panel discussion featuring Nicolette Wong, Xu Xi, Sharon Yam, Yeung Chak Yan, and Q.M. Zhang. Hosted by The Massachusetts Review.
A reading and panel discussion with Nicolette Wong, Xu Xi, Sharon Yam, Yeung Chak Yan, and Q.M. Zhang!Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, p...
Looking Back at Hong Kong: An Anthology of Writing and Art edited by Nicolette Wong. Cover art by Madeleine Slavick. Published in October 2021.
//Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political and ideological landscape, how do we reenvisage a city that exists in our memories? For those who have left their hometown—or the place they once called home—the question, “What does it mean to be a Hongkonger?” marks a constant shift between conflicting realities, identities and perceptions. Beyond the act of remembering, how do we reimagine our relationship with Hong Kong in the present and the future?
In this collection of prose, poetry and photography by eighteen writers and artists, we see a gathering of reflections on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong, both in recent times and over the past decades.//
Featuring work from John Wall Barger, Andrea Brittan, Jordan Dotson, Nashua Gallagher, Louise Ho, Viki Holmes, Hung Hung, Henry Wei Leung, Ploi Pirapokin, Mani Rao, Kate Rogers, Madeleine Slavick, Jennifer Wong, Pui Ying Wong, Xu Xi, Sharon Yam, Yeung Chak Yan, and Q.M. Zhang.
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Writing in Difficult Times (edited by Nicholas Wong and Li Mei-ting) is out of stock in Hong Kong. You could order a copy via Amazon or Blackwell's (links in comments).
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Writing in Difficult Times: A Bilingual Essay Anthology
Edited by Nicholas Wong and Li Mei Ting
11/2021, Cart Noodles Press, Department of English, CUHK
//Writing has always been a difficult subject to talk about, let alone writing an honest account about how one’s creative process is complicated by global lockdown and personal hardships. In Writing in Difficult Times, eleven young promising writers from Hong Kong wallow in some of their perhaps most confusing and troubling moments in life, and share their struggles. How do writers committed to crafted language maintain a dialogue with themselves? How does the dense urban living space affect creative outputs and thoughts? How do writers reflect on and evaluate gender roles, motherhood, and time? What roles does memory play in writing, if memory’s own language is not allowed to communicate? Each personal essay in this collection is available in both Chinese and English, hoping to build a timely and genuine connection with its readers, regardless of location and cultural background. Each word is a courageous sharing that makes a significant contribution to bilingual Hong Kong literary writings today.//
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