Kubrick Poetry Reading

時間 Time：2025/11/16 (Sunday) 3:00pm-4:00pm 

地點 Venue：Auditorium (1/F) in Broadway Cinematheque  

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

 詩人 Poets：Eric Yip, Tim Tim Cheng, James Shea 

語言Language：English 

登記 Registration：Link

Welcome to an afternoon of words and wonder. We are honoured to present a unique gathering of voices: James Shea, Tim Tim Cheng, and Eric Yip. Each poet brings a distinct style, offering us glimpses into their newest collections. This event is a mixed conversation and reading where the poets share not only their latest work but also insights into their creative journeys. 

Eric Yip is from Hong Kong. In 2021 he won the National Poetry Competition, and in 2025 he received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, The Guardian, The Poetry Review, and Poets & Writers. He is the poetry editor at Cha. 

Tim Tim Cheng is a poet, translator, editor, and teacher based between Glasgow and Hong Kong. They wrote The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) and Tapping at Glass (Verve, 2023). They are translating Ka Yee Lee’s 曝光 Exposure (Postscript Cultural Collaboration, 2022) from Chinese to English. They are teaching poetry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

James Shea is the author of Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean), a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing program at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council.

Kubrick Poetry • July • Tales from a Contested City

時間 Time：2025/7/13 (Sunday) 3:00pm-4:00pm

地點 Venue：Auditorium (1/F) in Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden,3 Public Square Street,Yau Ma Tei

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

作家 Writer：Peter Cookson Smith

語言Language：English 

登記 Registration: Link

 

These 33 tales from the contested city of Hong Kong (Proverse Hong Kong) provocatively reflect its often confounding and contentious history and personality. They range from narratives of real life to the largely inventive; from the serious to the satirical. Past, present and future are imaginatively intertwined in a variety of situations which explore the city's underlying chemistry. The tales illuminate many corners of the urban experience, sometimes injected with the necessary dose of congeniality mixed with occasional melancholy which is embedded in the city's life force.

 

This is Peter’s first book of fiction. In this session, we will shed light into the tales and the original thought and history behind the tales.

 

Peter Cookson Smith is a long-time resident of Hong Kong. In 1977 he founded URBIS – one of the first specialist city-planning, urban-design and environmental consultancies in South-east Asia. He directed some of the first new town and urban regeneration studies in Hong Kong and has directed an extensive range of projects across Asia. For several years he was an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Past-President of both the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design. He writes and lectures widely on the subject of urban design, and is the author and illustrator of eight books: The Urban Design of Impermanence (2006) about Hong Kong; The Urban Design of Concession (2011) about the growth and development of Chinese Treaty Port cities, The Urban Design of Intervention (2014) about Asian cities and more. 

Kubrick Poetry • July • Making Peace with yourself

時間 Time：2025/7/27 (Sunday) 3:00pm-4:00pm 

地點 Venue：Auditorium (1/F) in Broadway Cinematheque 

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

詩人 Poets：Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Atom Cheung 

語言Language：English 

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. 

― Marcus Aurelius 

How often do we feel unrest with ourselves? In this imperfect world, our expectations cannot always be met. Our career goals do not go the way we want. Sometimes, the day doesn’t go as we want. Even the weather is unpredictable. Some people are stuck in the past and resentful of past events. Some people constantly worry about the future. Writing poetry is a way to begin a quest for peace with yourself. In this session, two poets will be sharing their writing journey and reading their poems. If you have poems related to this theme, you are welcome to read and share. 

About the poets: 

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong works in many mediums: poetry, music, theater, performance, video and software. Born in Wisconsin and raised in Hong Kong, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for two decades before returning to Hong Kong to care for her mother. She can still be spotted in California from time to time. The department of peace (Sixteen Rivers Press) is her third book of poetry, following The Quenching (Finishing Line Press) and ravel (Neopoesis Press). She has staged two plays: Liriope and There's No Stopping to My Thoughts. Renku.earth, an Elixir application she built for writing poetry collaboratively, was a runner-up for the 2024 Elixir Consultancy Prize from the consultancy firm Erlang Solutions. 

Atom Cheung is a poet based in Hong Kong. He is the voice of Atomic Heart, an intimate poetry podcast. He has recently completed two poetry manuscripts, Forty-One Frames (a collection of 67 poems written during a transformative five-year stay at the heritage building Mei Ho House) and Don’t Kick the Cat’s Stomach (a collection of 23 poems exploring diaspora, religious trauma, and caregiving). His latest works appeared in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology and Canto Cutie. Learn more at www.atomcheung.com

Kubrick Poetry • March • Healing through Poetry

時間 Time：2025/3/23 (Sunday) 3:00pm-4:00pm 

地點 Venue：Auditorium (1/F) in Broadway Cinematheque 

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

詩人 Poets：Sadaff Habib, Florence Ng, Luisa Ternau 

語言Language：English 

The hustle world sometimes falls into silence. 

I feel the coldness amid the busy days and nights. 

A fleeting moment, gone in a blink. 

Not have yet the time to truly live. 

Meeting you, perhaps is the destiny of God. 

 Translation of lyrics from the song, The Water in the Dessert

 From the album The Dreamer by Khalil Fong 

How do we deal with our wounds when facing illness, passing of our loved one, battles of everyday living? The passing of singer and composer Khalil Fong and actress Barbie Hsu must have rung a bell in each of our heart. Why is life so fragile? 

 Poetry writing is a way for self-healing. It enables us to let go of our worries and reveal our deepest sorrow. The recurring theme in the poem unveil our unsounded worries and fear. In this special session, we invited three poets to read and share their journey of healing in writing poetry. 

About the poets: 

Sadaff Habib, born in Kenya and of Indian roots, Sadaff is a speaker, spoken word artist, and the author of My Womb, a collection of 108 poems on transformation, healing, and self-discovery. Through poetry and story telling, she inspires audience to embrace their wounds, find their voice, and honour every aspect of their personal journey. 

Florence Ng was born and lives in Hong Kong. She has co-founded Kubrick Poetry with Polly Ho and Waiyim Wong. Her first bilingual collection Wild Boar in Victoria Harbour was published by Kubrick in 2019. In 2021, she created the online poetry journal, Pause for Paws to celebrate people’s love for their poets and animals. 

Luisa Ternau studied literature at the University of Trieste in Italy and then gained an MA in modern English literature at King’s College London. She has enjoyed living and working in Europe, America and Asia. Luisa won a third prize in the Proverse Poetry Prize for Single Poems in 2016.

「詩畫同框」工作坊 — 海洋樂繽紛

 

給孩子一個寫詩繪畫的機會，透過寫詩去感受生活的美好。

 

寫詩，好似好浪漫，好想試吓寫詩，但又好似有點難度。其實寫詩可以好簡單、好生活化。

 

Triospin 致力推動生活美學 ，今次邀請了Kubrick Poetry Society的導師教小朋友畫海洋動物，並在畫上寫一首由小朋友自己創作的詩篇。

 

孩子們的詩句充滿靈性，想象力豐富，經常說出我們大人無法想到的美妙語言，不經意間打動了很多成年人麻木、遲鈍的心，請鼓勵你的孩子學習寫詩，感受生活的美好。

 

日期:8月19日(一)

時間:3:00-4:30pm

地點:Trio Spin Studio

早鳥:$160(13/8前報名)

費用:$200

對象:9至14歲學生

 

報名連結：https://forms.gle/64HxyYkt51ZT2kyY9

 

Kubrick Poetry • 七月 • 食物詩分享會

時間 Time：21/7/2024 (日) 3-4pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho、Atom Cheung

詩人 Poet：Sonia Leung、浮海、 施勁超、萍凡人、陳李才

語言Language：廣東話

報名 Registration: Link

 

有人用相片去懷緬過去，有人用文字去記載思念，有人用聲音去記錄一種體驗，也有人用香味去想起某一個人。如果用「食物」去記錄呢？回顧香港詩人梁秉鈞常以食物書寫城市﹐去年Kubrick Poetry 舉辦了一次香港食物誌徵稿比賽﹐獲得眾多投稿，最後選出七份得獎作品，得獎作品被製作成為名信片，七月詩會我們邀請得獎者和其他參加者一同分享他們的食物詩。

Kubrick Poetry • 十一月 • 「尋找你」之旅

 

時間 Time：26/11/2023 (日) 3-4pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

詩人 Poet：綠騎士，原名陳重馨

音樂家 Musician：Eugene Leung ( 梁宇正)

語言Language：中文和法文

報名 Registration: Link

 

旅行的意義是甚麼？一個人踏上旅途是一種怎樣的經歷？對於香港人來講，旅行是一種興趣，對於旅居異地的香港人來講，旅行則有另一層的意義，是回家，旅行還是歸根？是次讀詩會播放詩寓言短片和選詩朗讀環節。

 

綠騎士，原名陳重馨。 廣東省台山人，香港出生。畢業於香港大學，後赴巴黎國立美術學院及羅浮學院。居於法國，曾於歐亞美加舉行個展或群展。寫作：著有散文、小說集、詩畫冊和兒童故事等十多本。法文作品：詩畫集和圖文書共五本。近年致力於詩與畫的配合。電視：香港電台電視製作部：小說家族第二集「衣車」（短篇小說改編）華人作家紀錄片系列（二）之「法國的旅人」