So glad and grateful to have this opportunity to share on State of Play anthology: on migration, the meaning of heritage, feeling at home, with Kit Fan Troy Cabida Dr Theresa Muñoz Out-Spoken Press thanks also Eddie Tay (Co editor) & Anthony Anaxagorou for making the book a reality

Absolutely stunning to hear the conversation between Fred D’Aguiar & Jackie Kay on family, friendship and love.

Got back to my room after 00.00 ⁦NCLA⁩ wired from brilliant readings & talking but couldn’t resist starting ace ‘The State of Play’ hearing ⁦Kit Fan⁩ & ⁦Troy Cabida⁩
⁦Jennifer Wong⁩ speak of the richness of the paired exchanges it’s grown🌱

#GiveawayAlert : to win a copy of Joseph Coelho is laureating!'s #PoetryPrompts , a delightful introduction to poetry for young readers, longlisted for the Jhalak C&YA Prize 2024, RT + reply to this tweet by noon tomorrow (UK only).
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'Anne Carson is absorbing even when, maybe especially when, she isn’t so self-consciously dazzling.'

A. E. Stallings on Anne Carson’s experiments in poetry and prose
the-tls.co.uk/articles/anne-…

Wonderful launch of Alejandra Quintana Arocho’s latest translation of Margarida! Also much enjoyed hearing / reading with Georgie Fooks & Adriana X Jacobs

Literature: London-based academic Michael Tsang contributes three poems to The Hong Konger

Read more:
hongkonger.world/2024/05/08/thr…

wonderful having the opportunity yesterday discussing together the value & diversity of HK writing, the implications of ‘diaspora’, ‘race’, cultural contexts and how there is no single type of HK writer…

Thank you SEISMA Magazine for digging up that image to go with my poem seismamag.com/studiolab-jenn…

Looking forward to tomorrow ✨

Looking forward to the hybrid reading and discussion event on HK writing at The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing tomorrow, with Gregory Lee 利大英 Kit Fan, Karen Cheung and more! To join online, contact organiser for zoom link. see writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/writing…

It's good to be back! We're delighted to feature a new essay by Jennifer Wong, 'Rethinking cultural identity and belonging: East and Southeast Asian Poets writing in and beyond Britain', which discusses her important anthology, State of Play.

writersmakeworlds.com/essay-wong-sta…

A proper sunny day. Colours from a cafe window

Excited to share that Giramondo Publishing with be publishing my translation of Xi Xi's 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 for the Australia & New Zealand market. Available July 2024
giramondopublishing.com/books/xi-xi-mo…

Love these notebook covers. My work is strange: shifting between Uni s learning to year 1 children, book reviews & more. Reading Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love doesn’t seem to be work 😛 but it is.

Made this last time. Not bad 🥟 (uncooked version looking nicer). And, can’t believe c will be moving to the 9-12 fiction readers category next week!

Glad to see Oxford Brookes staging a symposium (15 May) addressing translation across cultures, with keynotes from Prof Charlotte Ryland & Prof Matthew Reynolds, and other humanities scholars at Headington Hill Hall OX3 0BP, open to all & no RSVP (see flyer for details)