Join the group for an evening celebrating the beauty of Asian poetry! A performance evening with poets Jennifer Lee Tsai and Kit Fan. They will read selected work followed by a discussion of their work. The chair, Dr Sarah MacIennan of Liverpool John Moores’ Creative Writing programme, will then discuss with Jennifer and Kit Fan about their work, career and pathways to writing.
Kit Fan, born in Hong Kong in 1979 and now based in the UK, is an acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic. His debut poetry collection, Paper Scissors Stone (2011), won the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, while his subsequent collections, including The Ink Cloud Reader (2023), have earned significant accolades such as nominations for the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. His novel Diamond Hill (2021) explores 1980s Hong Kong and has been widely praised. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fan’s work examines themes of identity, history, and transformation.
Jennifer Lee Tsai is a British-Chinese poet, editor, and critic whose work explores memory, migration, and identity. A fellow of The Complete Works and Ledbury Poetry Critics programs, her poetry has appeared in leading journals and anthologies like Poetry London and Ten: Poets of the New Generation (2017). Her pamphlets include Kismet (2019) and La Mystérique (2022).