Published by Cart Noodles Press (CUHK). Cover design by Zac Choy.
How do we situate ourselves when we navigate the city of Hong Kong—physically, and in our minds? Against a backdrop of bustling density and movement, the difficulties of making space have shaped our days. From the challenges of limited living space and the quest for personal space, to the everyday negotiations of our identities in the social space, we are constantly confronted with the question: How do we redefine the distance between the city, others, and ourselves, and between the selves within us?
This collection features prose, poetry and artwork from writers and artists in or from Hong Kong, as well as those who have had a close connection with the city, that explore the (im)possibility of making space. How do we remake space in our lives and our creative practices? What does this (im)possibility mean in (or in relation to) Hong Kong today?
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Published by Cart Noodles Press (CUHK), October 2021. Cover photo by Madeleine Slavick.
Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political and ideological landscape, how do we reenvisage a city that exists in our memories? For those who have left their hometown—or the place they once called home—the question, “What does it mean to be a Hongkonger?” marks a constant shift between conflicting realities, identities and perceptions. Beyond the act of remembering, how do we reimagine our relationship with Hong Kong in the present and the future?
In this collection of prose, poetry and photography by eighteen writers and artists, we see a gathering of reflections on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong, both in recent times and over the past decades.
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Published by corrupt press (Paris) in December 2013. Cover photo by David Heg. Order your signed copy here.
"Stone Bride Madrigals, what a lion with terror. What a white blanket baptism in a dreamy kind of rain. What Nicolette has done here is capture the sounds of colors--textures slashed across landscapes, illuminating the bodies and minds of the collection's inhabitants for the disintegrating matter that they are. They have choked a hole, goes the tangle of her text. They have choked a hole." --David Tomaloff, author of SLEEP (Plain Wrap Press)
"...piece-by-piece the poems unfold, revealing complex layers and registry specific to a scene--then a few scenes, culminating into a polished vision built by an unbending poetess...You don't feel the stories, but rather the conjuring after they've come upon you." --Zach Fishel, review of Stone Bride Madrigals at Red Paint Hill Publishing
"...a collection of melodic fragments, often gorgeous, often disturbing." --Kathleen Kirk, "Rags of Rigour" at Escape Into Life
"To read a series by Nicolette Wong is to consider the close proximity of the poem to the storm, to the grounds of the death of connection, to the moments of the dissipated boundary, to the echo of embodiment and the ceasing of the end of the pattern of scars." --Greg Bem, review at Yellow Rabbits
Video reading of "To Call This Honest House" by Nicolette Wong