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The Ink Cloud Reader

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173149
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Kit Fan
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 8 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 12/07/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 84 pages Weight: 130g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistically, formally and visually to process the news of a sudden illness and the threat of mortality, set against the larger chaos of his beloved city Hong Kong and our broken planet. These shape-shifting poems are persistently sensitive to anxiety, and to beauty, questioning the turbulent climate of our time while celebrating the power of ink - of reading and writing.
Kit Fan is a poet, novelist and critic born and educated in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at 21. His first poetry collection, PAPER SCISSORS STONE (2011), won the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize. AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE (2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. He won the Northern Writers Awards for Fiction and for Poetry, the Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and Poetry Magazine Editors’ Prize for Reviewing. His debut novel is DIAMOND HILL (2021). THE INK CLOUD READER is his third poetry collection. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
* Third poetry collection from Kit Fan, winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize and the Northern Writers Awards for Fiction and for Poetry. * A disquieting collection about illness, mortality and gay marriage, set against the larger chaos of Hong Kong and our broken planet. * The collection’s centrepiece ‘Hong Kong, China’ documents the social and political upheaval in Fan’s birthplace during the pro-democracy protests of 2019. * Shape-shifting poems that question the turbulent climate of our time while celebrating the power of ink – of reading and writing.
'his poems [have] an uncanny momentum and coherence. It is an extraordinary book.' - Adam Phillips on 'As Slow as Possible'
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