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    Letters Home

    By Jennifer Wong

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    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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNine Arches Press
    Release dateFeb 27, 2020
    ISBN9781911027881
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    Letters Home
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    Jennifer Wong

    Jennifer Wong as born and grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK, Jennifer is the author of several poetry collections including recently 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press) which was named the Wild Card Choice by PBS. Jennifer is currently working on a new collection. She also runs an online poetry series called What We Read Now and also co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology with Jason Lee and Tim Tim Cheng. (VERVE Poetry Press, 2023).

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