some people don’t fear death, they know life on this plane is temporary, they have a moral compass, respect for nature and the animal world, and understand what is right and wrong… it’s hard to defeat a folk like that

‘We move authority like a strand of black hair’

- Sanah Ahsan, from ‘I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It’ Bloomsbury Books UK

Thank you Poetry London 錦豪/Jinhao for reviewing Where Else HK poetry anthology (@VervePoetryPres) co-edited w/ Jason EH Lee tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they), along with Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, mapping the liminal spaces of migration. Poems by Marilyn Chin in same issue! (Repost)

Introducing the87press Book Subscription 2024-25 📚

We're running a subscription for our 10 new books (+1 secret release) upcoming in the next year. Basically, you pay for the books upfront at a discount, and they show up at your door throughout the year!
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🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

All by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies.

Israel has…

I'm selling some handmade, bilingual, artists' books by friends in Barras #HongKong Market this weekend. Will also share their work (and my own) at 3pm on both days. Come say hi~~

It’s paperback publication day for A FLAT PLACE! first we are sorting small objects from a box marked ‘random’ at my mother’s house

“It is / closer to me than it is to you.”

From the latest issue of The Poetry Review

Pay attention to how western press and politicians are reacting to the targeted killing of their own citizens.

Gaza is the test case. What they get away with doing to Paletinians, they will eventually do to their own citizens. Nobody is safe till all of us are safe!!!!

Different angle, same light. The light is dead. Long live the light.

PN Review is out now! Let's have a look inside the latest issue...

thanks editors PN Review for trusting them 😳

Margaret Ng said Hong Kong's Mount Zero bookstore represented 'the aspirations of young people to express themselves in literature and to form their own community.'

'That spirit is unvanquished,' she told AFP News Agency.

Video: youtu.be/vzKiftWJIMA

📽️Selim Chtayti, Justin Chan🧵

🌟 Dive into somatic exercises and writing prompts with Southbank Centre New Poets Collective w/ tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they) in 'Writing the Body'! Explore themes of coming of age, illness, & body modification through the works of Rachel Long, Kit Fan, & more.

poetryschool.com/courses/writin… 🖋️🌿

I survived.