When I put together a portfolio as the end-of-course assignment for HKU undergraduate Creative Writing course. I had to write something, because there was an assignment to be done.Ĭan you list some important moments in your early experiences as a poet? It’s my sexuality, but I didn’t see it as a source of inspiration. But serious creative writing only began in 2010, when I officially started my MFA at City University of Hong Kong.ĭo you remember what inspired you to write your first poems? The first poem was written when I was in my third year at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), when Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim was teaching Creative Writing there. How many years have you been writing poetry? This interview is part of a study that charts the recent development of local Anglophone poetics in Hong Kong and Singapore and connects each city to a wider narrative of the evolving Asian city experience. He launched the literary journal R.ed at the Education University of Hong Kong, and is the first ever Asian to have won the prestigious Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry (2015) as well as the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2018), putting Hong Kong poetry and writing on the world literary map. Nicholas Wong is an award-winning poet, educator, promoter of literature and the arts, and a pioneering member of the English-language poetry and literary community in Hong Kong. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Jason Eng Hun Lee interview Nicholas Wong
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