laura jane lee is a poet and copywriter. She is the founder of KongPoWriMo and Subtle Asian Poetry Collective, and the winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize. Her work has been awarded in various international competitions and published in journals and newspapers locally and internationally. Previous works include chengyu: chinoiserie (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2020).
All five of the titles published under Joelle Taylor’s editorship, for a special price of £35:
Cane, Corn & Gully - Safiya Kamaria Whitaker (formerly Kinshasa)
Fetch Your Mother’s Heart - lisa luxx
flinch & air- Laura Jane Lee
Somewhere Something is Burning - Alice Frecknall
Caviar - Sarah Fletcher
flinch & air is a unique exploration of Asian female identity. Reflecting on culture, politics, language and society in and beyond Hong Kong, this is a book of remembrance, courage, resilience and sacrifice. Touching on the current Hong Kong mass demonstrations, the 2019 Extradition Treaty, and the stories of her female elders, flinch & air positions Asian women at the centre of the page.
flinch & air is a unique exploration of Asian female identity. Reflecting on culture, politics, language and society in and beyond Hong Kong, this is a book of remembrance, courage, resilience and sacrifice. Touching on the current Hong Kong mass demonstrations, the 2019 Extradition Treaty, and the stories of her female elders, flinch & air positions Asian women at the centre of the page.
‘Reading these poems is like splashing cold water on your face when you’d forgotten what splashing cold water on your face felt like (we always forget). The poetry has an uncanny lightness and ease of movement. It is sharp, funny and deeply seeing. It woke me up. I can’t recommend it highly enough.’
— Mark Waldron
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State of Play brings together conversations between an international line-up of poets, taking place over the course of a year. Edited by Eddie Tay, a Singapore-born, Hong Kong-based poet and literature professor and Jennifer Wong, a Hong Kong-born, British-based poet, this anthology offers rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate one’s writing.
With themes ranging from the sense of home and racialised expectations, to community and language, as well as the process of writing poetry, these creative discussions delve into the complexities and diversity of identity in the days of global citizenship and cultural diaspora. Find out more, read excerpts and listen to / watch recordings of events on our State of Play page here.
Praise for State of Play:
Editors: Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong
Contributors: Romalyn Ante, Khairani Barokka, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Troy Cabida, Mary Jean Chan, Victoria Chang, Chen Chen, Tim Tim Cheng, Felix Chow, Kit Fan, Jay Gao, Will Harris, Sarah Howe, Antony Huen, Joshua Ip, L Kiew, Laura Jane Lee, Li-Young Lee, Louise Leung, Dong Li, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mukahang Limbu, Aaron Maniam, Theresa Muñoz, Alvin Pang, Nina Mingya Powles, Helen Quah, Sean Wai Keung, Lora Supandi, Arthur Sze, Marylyn Tan, Jennifer Lee Tsai, R. A. Villanueva, Jenny Xie, Jinhao Xie, Yanyi, Eric Yip, Monica Youn, and Ethan Yu.