{"id":50157,"date":"2016-11-24T01:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T01:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50157"},"modified":"2017-02-10T01:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:14:34","slug":"loop-of-jade-sarah-howe-visits-manchester-literature-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50157","title":{"rendered":"Loop of Jade: Sarah Howe visits Manchester Literature Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityhallows.co.uk\/loop-of-jade-sarah-howe-visits-manchester-literature-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Loop of Jade: Sarah Howe visits Manchester Literature Festival<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityhallows.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Humanity Hallows<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leigh Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2015 T.S. Eliot prize winner and author of <em>A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahhowepoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Howe<\/a> made an appearance at the Manchester Literature Festival recently to discuss her novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45082\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loop of Jade<\/em><\/a>. Within her work, Howe takes her audience on a personal journey through her English-Chinese background, exploring, as the book\u2019s blurb describes, both \u2018migration and inheritance\u2019. The novel contains many forms of writing, including poetry, narrative, free verse and short prose, all providing an insight into cultural upbringing and the journey to discover one\u2019s place within society.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, Howe read from her work. Opening with \u2018Sirens\u2019, inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Roethke\" target=\"_blank\">Theodore Roethke\u2019s<\/a> \u2018Elegy for Jane\u2019, Howe showed how she became fascinated with the key word \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pickerel\" target=\"_blank\">pickerel<\/a>\u2019 from which she created a poem illustrating the true meaning of literature and how the perceptions of words continuously develop overtime. Howe emphasised the differences human beings share through literature and how it has encouraged us to think. She described her piece as, \u201cvery real and determinative\u201d, as it does not seek to provide an answer but, more so, to enhance ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityhallows.co.uk\/loop-of-jade-sarah-howe-visits-manchester-literature-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8,10],"tags":[25492,25491,22600],"class_list":["post-50157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-humanity-hallows","tag-leigh-jones","tag-sarah-howe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50158,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50157\/revisions\/50158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}