Live on our website today: a tongue-in-cheek impression of HK life lived abroad in political exile— and one man's unsettling attempt at finding the sense within it. Read Catherine Yu ‘Riso Allegro’'s witty translation of HK writer Mukyu here: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-s…

'So, while I am here,
I would like to look at every flower. & every painting
of a flower, every flower in a photograph.'

Read 'To Whom It May Delight' by #NBAwards -honored poet Chen Chen (兔兒神). | The Oxonian Review

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i've got a new poem in The Oxonian Review. it's called 'To Whom It May Delight' and it's about flowers, death, the mind, the nose, emails, beauty, living, art making, and flowers.

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'I would like to believe there is
a way to feel every flower delicately or furiously
placed on my grave, I’d like that,
& hope it tickles'

'To Whom It May Delight,' a new poem by 兔兒神:

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'After she had left, my heart felt a little empty, and I wondered to myself when we might meet again.'

Read an excerpt of H.I. Chung's 'My Dear Wife', translated by Jennifer Wong, in our 'To Write Hong Kong' series: oxonianreview.com/articles/my-de…

Congratulations to the longlisted authors and translators for the International Booker Prize The Booker Prizes.

Curious about the longlist? Our review of nominated CROOKED PLOW is a good place to start: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-w…

'Can’t see the sky so no sky. Can’t
see the time so no time.'

Another poem by Owen Torrey: oxonianreview.com/articles/in-th…

'Sad, I said. Magnolia,
you corrected. When did you begin

to know that? That there were names,
we had them, so did they.'

A poem by Owen Torrey: oxonianreview.com/articles/winte…

'We had stopped at Montpellier to see / the last normal bodies outstretched / and announced, giving their days / up in turn before the next week came'...

A poem by Shaw Worth: oxonianreview.com/articles/carca…

‘Those who lament literature’s responsibility to politics aren’t really talking about politics at all; they are calling for the writer’s freedom to write about whatever they want..’

Gus O'Connor considers a current strain of literary criticism: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-l…

Crooked Plow is 'a flowing and clear novel that wears its experimentalism lightly while exploring a long history of exploitation and resistance.'

Cate Farr reviews Itamar Viera Junior’s assured debut about a quilombo community in Brazil Verso Books: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-w…

Last year, we asked Fredric Jameson to send us his notes. He responded with one sentence: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-n…

Jameson is on a level of literary aesthetics the booktok girlies can only dream of

Times Square—'Is the big screen, is the well that soars from below/Is the people peddling their postures on the escalator/Is each brand competing on the sidelines'...

A poem by Derek Chung, translated by May Huang: oxonianreview.com/articles/times…

🇭🇰 A new translation by May Huang in The Oxonian Review's HK column today— on the bustling world of Causeway Bay's Times Square, as captured in poetry by Derek Chung: oxonianreview.com/articles/times…

'for mouth,
see: ear: for ear, see: eye: for eye, see: aye,
aye! for 'i', see: 'you': for 'i' see:
should i live? or or or'

Read 'porthole,' one of two new poems by Darius Atefat-Peckham in the The Oxonian Review today:

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'We booked this place because we only have
one life, but now I'm skeptical.'

Read 'The Seen Unseen,' one of two new poems by Darius Atefat-Peckham in the The Oxonian Review today:

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'I don’t think I have a note-taking process so much as I use note-taking to think.'

For our series on note-taking, acclaimed food writer Alicia Kennedy takes notes to think aloud, but quietly: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-n…

'It rained. It did. It had been raining. That it had been raining. That it could / have been raining.'

Read Richard Siken's poem 'The Subjunctive' from his forthcoming collection, I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, in The Oxonian Review: oxonianreview.com/articles/the-s…

New Poem -- The Subjunctive
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