Siu Wa Tang

Hong Kong

TANG Siu Wa (poet, essayist; Hong Kong) is the author of two poetry collections [A Bottle Unmoved] and [The Opposite of Sounds], two volumes of prose writing [A Motley of Banalities] and [Just Like Nothing Happens], and a collection of interviews [Asking Directions from the People]; she is the editor of the collections [Wait and See: Collected Works of Six New Hong Kong Writers], [The Tomb of Film] and [The Same Darkness Befalls Dawn: Hong Kong June Fourth Poetry]. Tang Siu-wa is a founding editor of the literary magazine Fleurs des lettres and a co-founder of the House of Hong Kong Literature; a literary organizer and human rights activist, she teaches creative writing at various Hong Kong institutions, and contributes columns and criticism to a variety of local media.

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(The Fallacy of and the Pleasure from) Irrelevance In my days of living alone I wander a lot in the parks between Prince Edward District and Yau Ma Tei. It is always late at night when street lights are dim and the silhouette of trees implies a shelter from notice.... media_text	Why Rely on the Fictitious Smoke disperses Night has fallen Violet Alice Holds out two hands from the black velvet Pastoral is getting old-fashioned We’re tied up by utterances Growing more clueless day... media_text	Abstract Oneness The night lasts longer than life Briefer than ice. When everything deforms and evaporates in the dark Meticulous words come only from the stars We are dim and pale like a gray rock. ... media_text
A Sense of Place According to Tim Cresswell, Place is a meaningful location, to which specific people are attached in some way. Place is somewhere me or you made meaningful. You have to invest meaning into it, endow it with value. A... media_text	Getting along with my house The city has its own riddle for the lost. When the sun’s departed, all others stroll along the street, Leaving their own houses behind. Then I always start climbing up, Secretly entering... media_text

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