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Sarah Howe, TIDE Writer in Residence, and TS Eliot Prize-winning author of “Loop of Jade” will read with University of Liverpool’s Colm Toibin Fellow in Creative Writing, the novelist Anthony Joseph.
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Loop of Jade: Sarah Howe visits Manchester Literature Festival Humanity Hallows 2016-11-04 Leigh Jones 2015 T.S. Eliot prize winner and author of A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia, Sarah Howe made an appearance at the Manchester Literature Festival recently to discuss her novel Loop of Jade. Within her work, Howe takes her audience on a personal journey…
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“Jade bracelets are meant to protect Chinese toddlers when they’re learning to walk, like talismans – if the baby falls down, the idea is that the circle of stone will smash rather than the child be hurt. For me, it represents the broken bloodline of my Chinese inheritance – disrupted by the fact that my…
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Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…
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Two Systems or A Reading Towards New Work The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (Sherr Room) Cambridge, Massachusetts 2015-10-28 (Published 2015-11-06) Sarah Howe, the 2015–2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, presents “Two Systems,” a new sequence of poems in which she explores the historical encounter between China and the West.
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“Crossing from Guangdong:” A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege TEDx Talks 2015-12-02 The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet Sarah Howe shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the China her mother left behind during the Communist Revolution. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first…
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TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut The Guardian 2016-01-11 Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, could ‘change British poetry’. Photograph: Hayley Madden/FMcM/PA Judges hail daring use of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritage A new voice, who judges say…
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Book review: Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe The Scotsman: Scotland’s National Newspaper 2015-05-03 Roger Cox, Arts Editor Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015) DOUBLE takes haunt poet Sarah Howe on her return to memory’s fragrant harbour, writes Roger Cox In her poem Sirens, Sarah Howe writes “I had one of…
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There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.