Letters Home
Published on 27. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-1-911027-87-4 (ISBN)
Description
Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be returning home, and whether it is a return to a location, a country or to a shared dream or language.
"There are poems of homesickness, nostalgia, but also humour, hope and optimism - all depicted in Wong's distinctive, intelligent style... This is a remarkable collection, which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature." - Hannah Lowe
"Jennifer Wong's voice is captivating, compassionate, her poems full of insight, as she questions the complex relationship between culture and identity and what it means to leave a place to become defined by another." - Rebecca Goss
"There are poems of homesickness, nostalgia, but also humour, hope and optimism - all depicted in Wong's distinctive, intelligent style... This is a remarkable collection, which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature." - Hannah Lowe
"Jennifer Wong's voice is captivating, compassionate, her poems full of insight, as she questions the complex relationship between culture and identity and what it means to leave a place to become defined by another." - Rebecca Goss
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Language
English
Place of publication
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United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911027-87-4 (9781911027874)
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Jennifer Wong is a Hong Kong-born poet who lives in the UK. She studied English at Oxford and has an MA and PhD in creative writing from University of East Anglia and Oxford Brookes. She has three collections including Letters Home (Nine Arches Press). She is the co-editor of State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Outspoken Press, 2023) and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023). She is also the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury, 2023).