A hermit in a bustle and hustle city

Nicolette Wong is our featured poet in June! It is her first time openly talks about her experience writing poetry, managing an online magazine, launched an independent publishing house, etc. She discussed what and how literature/film inspires her. Among which, she is very much influenced by Japanese films in the 60s and 70s. She has rich exposure to international writers through managing this online magazine (A-Minor Magazine). She improved her writing and aesthetic sense by reading many manuscript on a daily basis. Nicolette names herself as a hermit, but she is never a lonely one. She has so many intellectual friends in Hong Kong and outside of Hong Kong.

Kubrick Poetry • July• The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground

時間 Time：2015/7/26 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho

嘉賓Guest：Collier Nogues

Collier Nogues’s first book of poems, On the Other Side, Blue, was published by Four Way Books in 2011. Her writing has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Fishtrap. She grew up in Texas and on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, and now teaches creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also co-edits poetry for Juked.

The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground is a hybrid of poetry and digital art. The poems erase historical documents related to the development and aftermath of the Pacific War, especially on the island of Okinawa. Erased into poems, these texts become spare narratives of how individual soldiers’ and civilians’ daily lives were transformed by the war. The poems and their original texts tell a larger story about the ways we imagine war, and the ways language can be used to record, justify, memorialize, or resist it. The book has a companion website featuring each poem as an interactive erasure. (www.thegroundistandon.com)

“This is the best book of erasure poems since Srikanth Reddy’s Voyager. They don’t necessarily read as erasures, but as lyric poems— even managing rhyme and epistolary. Like Reddy’s Voyager, these carry powerful political implications, regarding Japan and Japanese/US relations before, during, and after WWII.”

--Forrest Gander 

Nicolette's reading is ready for download

You can download Nicolette's selected poems from the following link:

Nicolette's poems (The link is closed)

The link will be closed on 21st June.

Kubrick Poetry • June • Stone Bride Madrigals

時間 Time：2015/6/21 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho 

嘉賓Guest：Nicolette Wong 

Nicolette Wong is a poet, indie lit publisher, magician and dancer. Her poetry chapbook, Stone Bride Madrigals, was published in December 2013 by corrupt press (Paris). Since 2011 she has been running A-Minor Magazine, an online magazine featuring prose, poetry and artwork. In 2012 she founded A-Minor Press, an independent press publishing full-length collections of poetry and mixed genre work by international authors. 

Nicolette Wong on Stone Bride Madrigals:

“On a snowy night in Brooklyn, I met the statue who was to appear in many of the poems I’d go on to write… My statue walked through all kinds of disintegration. Sometimes she saw death. These poems are her songs.”

In her recent work, Wong has been re-creating Chinese myths — like the yellow springs where the dead wander, and stories of defying fate/god — as well as drawing inspirations from the work of Japanese avant-garde and New Wave filmmakers like Shuji Terayama and Hiroshi Teshigahara. 

Andrew's selected poems ready for download

You can download Andrew's selected poems from the following link:

Andrew S. Guthrie's poems (The link is closed.)

The link will be closed on 24th May.

Kubrick Poetry • May • Alphabet

時間 Time：2015/5/24 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳    

主持 Moderator: Atom Cheung

詩人 Poet：Andrew S. Guthrie

Alphabet consists of 26 poems concerning the vagaries of failure, including: misplaced manuscripts, writer’s block, articulate illiterates, libraries that were burned to the ground, posthumous fame for the previously poverty-stricken, botched yet endlessly repeated translations, the shortcomings of the dilettante, the over-inflated ego, and the perennial loser.’ --- From the introduction of Alphabet, a poetry collection by Andrew S. Guthrie.  

Of the failures, which do you point to and say, ‘Yes, that’s me,’ or ‘that’s where I’m heading’ or ‘that’s exactly someone I know, someone I admire’?  We cannot get you out of your cloud, but you may walk away from the discussion with crystals of new insight, and who knows, you may end up convinced that failing in style is an achievement beyond success. Each poem in the book is assigned with an alphabet and given a title. According to the table of content, P-O-E-T-R-Y spells hallucination, intermission, consignment, zeus, well-known, and your edit. One of these bleakly humorous poems will be given a dramatic recitation by the actor Nikel Mordis. You must come to find out more. 

Andrew S. Guthrie was born in New York City, lived for most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts, moved to Hong Kong in 2005. His writing can be found online at Make Do Studios, Weaponizer and Cha and in the print magazine, Poetry Is Dead. His artist edition “Brooken Records: 1960 -1969” was collected by The Brooklyn Museum of Art” in 2010 and his book of poetry “Alphabet” was released in April 2015 through Proverse Publishing Hong Kong.

Kubrick Poetry • April • Nonfiction

時間 Time：2015/4/11 (Saturday) 3:00pm-4:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderator: Polly Ho

嘉賓Guests：Mitch Berman and Susanne Lee

For many people, the June Fourth Incident is an historical event that has changed many people’s life. Mitch Berman and Susanne Lee were at the scene during the outbreak. They captured the historical moment in text, a moment that recurrent in many people’s life, and theirs. 

“One must arrive with a story to tell” a welcoming quote in Pow Wow. They are revisiting Hong Kong with more stories to tell, aren’t they?

About the writers

Susanne's nonfiction on such diverse subjects as surrealism and blood sausage in Spain, mixed race children, human rights in China, and mehndi in Delhi has appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, Konch, SLAM and Giant Robot, and on WNYE-FM.  Her fiction appears in the collection Pow Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now, edited by Ishmael Reed (Da Capo Press) and was a runner-up in the Guardian UK's Orange Openings Contest.

Mitch Berman is the author of the novel Time Capsule, hailed by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and nominated by Putnam for the Pulitzer Prize. His short stories, appearing in literary magazines such as TriQuarterly and Antioch Review and many anthologies, have been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes, receiving special mentions in Best American Short Stories. He has taught creative writing at the University of Texas.