Paper Scissors Stone
Published on 7. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-988-8083-47-3 (ISBN)
Description
Kit Fan's award-winning first book of poems establishes him as one of the most promising new writers on the Hong Kong literary scene and one of the most original and compelling new voices in English-language poetry, with an exciting sense of poetic form and brilliantly eclectic range of international subjects.
Reviews / Votes
"Then all things began twice." The poems in Paper Scissors Stone are moved by the forces of repetition and release, and are haunted by crossings (of borders, of people, of languages and their written characters). With wit and sorrow, precision and tact, the poems study the essential qualities of places, persons, and their arrangements, asking us what it is to begin twice. The book is a formally beautiful and complete meditation on transformation. -- Saskia HamiltonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
145 gr
ISBN-13
978-988-8083-47-3 (9789888083473)
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Person
Born and educated in Hong Kong, Kit Fan now lives in the UK. He completed a PhD in English at the University of York, and his poems have been widely published in literary magazines such as Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Poetry Wales, and The London Magazine. He won a 2006 Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the 2010 inaugural HKU Poetry Prize.