City Voices Continued
- an evening of readings by authors of "City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English, 1945 to the Present"

 

Readings by: Jam Ismail, Agnes Lam, David McKirdy, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Nicole Wong, Hark Yeung Wai Man, Xu Xi, Ya Se
Moderator: Xu Xi
Date: 20 October 2006 (Friday)
Time: 7:15pm - 9:00pm
Venue: 1/F, New Wing, Main Library, HKU
Language: English

 

About the Presenters and the Moderator:

Jam Ismail
Performance poet Jam writes about herself: "HK returnee Jam Ismail kindergartened in Calcutta, B.A.'d in Pokfulam Road, studied in Edmonton, taught literature in Burnaby, sabbatical'd in Marble Arch, wintered in Valhalla, dyked across the Pacific, photographed 'Atlantis' (see Ackbar Abbas Hong Kong Culture & the Politics of Disappearance 1997), gardened in Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, Wall Street, Yang Ming Shan, & Barnt Green. Canadian publications include 'Sexions' (1984), 'From Diction Air' (1989), 'From Scared Texts' (1991), Jamelie-Jamila project (with Jamelie Hassan, 1992), "Translit-' (1997), & 'Perch' (2001)."

Agnes Lam
Agnes Lam is an associate professor at the English Centre, University of Hong Kong. Her poems have appeared in Singapore's Singa and Commentary and Australia's Westerly. Her first collection, Woman to Woman, was published in 1997 by Asia 2000 (Hong Kong).

David McKirdy
David McKirdy is a long-time Hong Kong resident and car mechanic who writes poetry, rides (and builds) motorcycles and plays the drums. He is a key organiser of poetry events, including Outloud, and has encouraged many poets to their work for the first time.

Madeleine Marie Slavick
Madeleine’s books include Round-Poems and Photographs of Asia (Winner, Bumbershoot Book Award), Children of China and China-The Dragon Awakes. She has won three Hong Kong Arts Development Council grants for her poetry and photography, exhibited in France, Italy, Austria, USA, Singapore and Hong Kong. My Favourite Thing, an 11-country documentary project with Oxfam, will be translated into three languages. She is an organiser of two monthly poetry activities. Madeleine is launching 'Coloring Words’ at the festival, a collection of her poems and photographs on color, with Chinese translations by the poet, Zheng Danyi.

Nicole Wong
Nicole is a writer. Nicole's works include: Ash, Back Street, In the Newspaper in Yuan Yang: a Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing.

Hark Yeung Wai Man
Hark is a writer and a photographer. Her publications include: Our Elders, in Chinese and in English, co-written with Fong So, and Walking On The Melting Ice and Our Elders in City Voices, Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 to the Present. Her Children in Myanmar was awarded in BBC Photo Competition 2004.

Ya Se
Ya Se has published 10 volumes of poetry, including the bilingual volumes City at the End of Time, Foodscape, Clothink. His new selection of poems Travelling with a Bitter Melon, will be published by Asia 2000 this Spring. Ya Se teaches literature and film at Lingnan University. He was writer in residence in Berlin in 1998, and a volume of poems The Politics of Vegetable had been translated into German and published in Berlin. He is also a fiction writer, and a collection of his stories in French translation, Iles et continents, was recently published by Gallimard.

Xu Xi
A native Hong Kong novelist now living in New York, Xu Xi has published five books of fiction, including The Unwalled City and History’s Fiction. The South China Morning Post calls her style "arrestingly poignant."