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.

Reading material ready for download

You can download the reading material from the following link:

James Shea's poems  (The link is closed.)

The link will be closed on 22nd March.

Kubrick Poetry • March • The Lost Novel

時間 Time：2015/3/22 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung

詩人 Poet： James Shea

James Shea's first book Star in the Eye won the Fence Modern Poets Series prize and garnered widespread acclaim with rave reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, Colorado Review, and the Chicago Sun-Times, which named it a "Favorite Book of the Year" (2008). His follow-up, The Lost Novel (Fence Books, NY), comes on the heels of that praise and the anticipation that's been building since his stunning debut. 

Shea, a former Fulbright Scholar in Hong Kong and recipient of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching, is currently teaching poetry writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has lived in Japan and was inspired by the masters of Japanese haikai poetry—Bashō, Issa, and Buson—as well as by more experimental haiku poets like Ozaki Hōsai and Sayumi Kamakura, both of whom he has translated. “I discovered how deeply Japanese poetry was inspired by classical Chinese poetry,” says Shea.

“James comes to Hong Kong with a background of teaching creative writing at the university level, a high-quality published collection of poetry (Star in the Eye, 2008) that has been critically acclaimed and an MFA from a top program (University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop).”

                                                                                                     —Xu Xi

Kubrick Poetry • January • Closed Gate

時間 Time：2015/1/25 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung

詩人 Poet： Sayed Gouda

Sayed Gouda’s Closed Gate juxtaposes the Tian’anmen Square Massacre in Beijing with the sufferings of Palestine. But while the novel’s narrative builds slowly and irreversibly towards its climactic conclusion in June 1989, the sufferings of Gaza are experienced in snatches, dreams, and traumatic flashes of sudden prose, as if to suggest that here is a drama that is not concluded – as it surely isn’t. The Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim ash-Shabi is quoted by the novel’s innocent but open-eyed narrator as writing: ‘If someday people want to live/Fate must yield to them/And the night must have an end/And the chains must break.’ Closed Gate exhorts us towards this freedom without ever losing its composure or even becoming didactic. A gate is cracked upon just a bit, allowing us to see China’s tensions from an outsider’s perspective – and the continuing tragedy of Gaza from a perspective we all must accept as our own.

About Sayed Gouda

Sayed Gouda was born in Cairo, now living in Hong Kong. Gouda is a published poet, novelist, and translator. He is the editor of a literary website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and German (www.arabicnadwah.com). 

Kubrick Poetry • January • Octavio Paz

時間 Time：2015/1/18 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm

地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳

主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung

詩人 Poets： Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and contributors to Desde Hong Kong: Poets in conversation with Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and public intellectual, was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. He built bridges among cultures, and especially among poets. His connections with Asia were considerable. Moved by the wisdom and lyrical thrust of Chinese poetry, he translated some 60 classical poems primarily from the Tang and Song dynasties. These are still considered the best translations of Chinese poems in Spanish. Paz also served as ambassador to India, and wrote lucidly on South Asian and its culture. 

Desde means "from" and this anthology of original poetry from Hong Kong and beyond commemorates the centenary of the poet's birth and illustrates the continuing ability of Paz's poetry to inspire and stimulate across decades, cultures and oceans.

About Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

Tammy Ho is founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and Assistant Professor of English literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Website: http://chameleonpress.com/octaviopaz

Kubrick Poetry • 十二月 • 南區山水

時間 Time：2014/12/13 (Saturday)

第一節Session 1: 2:00-2:30pm

第二節Session 2: 3:25-3:55pm

地點 Venue： 香港仔海濱公園   （Aberdeen Promenade）

主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung
嘉賓 Guest: 飲江

大潭日出寧靜致遠，石澳水清沙媚，香港南區鬧中有靜，環山面海，地靈人傑。香港詩人梁秉鈞對香港情懷深厚，早年以詩歌書寫香港，寫物抒懷；台灣詩人和旅遊家劉克襄對香港情有獨鐘，穿林過村看香港山水，邂逅被忽略的灣徑村林；還有比利時國寶級詩人莫里斯．卡雷姆斯Maurice Carême，時間﹑親情﹑愛情﹑死亡﹑世界與生活的思索成為他書寫的泉源。三位詩人來自不同時空和國家，因詩緣相聚，我們選取他們的詩篇與大眾朗誦，一起於午後感受南區的秋風送爽。

簡介

Kubrick Poetry 是一個非牟利文學團體，致力推廣詩歌欣賞和創作。自2006年成立以來，每月最後的星期日於油麻地Kubrick書店舉辦詩聚。過往曾邀請來自五湖四海，包括法國、德國、土耳其、埃及、台灣、澳門和香港本土詩人。我們相信詩歌是最能觸及人們心靈，讓想像力馳騁的載體。過往我們曾經製作木版畫卡，舉辦詩歌和攝影展覽，期望透過這些活動，融合不同文化及放眼國際，持守對詩歌的一團火苗。

Kubrick Poetry is a non-profit organisation. We have been holding monthly gatherings while promoting poetry to the community since 2006. Our events have featured Hong Kong and Asian poets, as well as literary luminaries from as far as France, Germany, Turkey, and Egypt. Recent large-scale events include the production of woodblock print cards in 2012 and a poetry-photography exhibition in the summer of 2014. We believe poetry is both a vehicle for self-expression and a capsule for the imagination.  We are an inclusive, international, and experimental collective, dedicated to the art of words.

Presented by Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation:

www.hkyaf.com/events/528/Southern+District+Literature+Day+-+All+About+Poetry