Wed 9 Oct
6:30-9pm
Join us for a night of poetry readings by Troy Cabida, Pey Oh, Yan Ge and Tammy Ho, with Jenny Wong moderating.
Troy Cabida is the author of War Dove (Bad Betty Press, 2020). His work appears in State of Play, Bi+ Lines, 100 Queer Poems, and Tiffany & Co. He works for the National Poetry Library and holds a BA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. His second pamphlet, Symmetric of Bone, is forthcoming with fourteen poems in November 2024.
Pey Oh (she/her) is a Bath-based poet from Malaysia. Her first pamphlet, Pictograph, was published by Flarestack Poetry in 2018. Her work can be found in harana poetry, Butcher’s Dog, Long PoemMagazine, Abridged, Iamb, The Scores - A Journal of Poetry and Prose, and Live Canon Anthology 2024. A Legitimate Snack, Bagua was out with Broken Sleep Books in 2021. She is a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Poetry winner 2021.
Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English, and is the author of fourteen books in Chinese, including six novels. She has received numerous awards and was named by People’s Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, including English, French and German. The latest English translation of her novel, Strange Beasts of China, was one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2021.
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born scholar, editor, poet & translator. She is the editor-in-chief of Cha, the English editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, a co-editor of Hong Kong Studies, & the translation editor of The Shanghai Literary Review. Her first poetry collection is Hula Hooping (Chameleon), for which she won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the HK Arts Development Council. Other books are Her Name Upon the Strand (Delere Press), Too Too Too Too (Math Paper Press), An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong (Musical Stone), Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave). She was a writer-in-residence at the Iowa's International Writing Program in Fall 2023. Her third poetry collection, If I Do Not Reply (Shearsman Books), was published in May 2024.
Jennifer Wong (she/her) has a PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University. She is the co-editor of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (2023) and is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her new pamphlet, time difference, is forthcoming from Verve in 2024.