Creative Practice as a Way of Life

Eddie Tay is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Born in Singapore and a long-term resident in Hong Kong, he is a poet and a street photographer, and director of Cart Noodles Press, the department’s recently-established literary imprint. In the Palgrave Studies of Creativity and Culture series he already published Hong Kong as Creative Practice (2022).

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Writing Poetry with Barthes.- 3 Singapore as Phantasmagoria.- 4 On Depression and the Creative Life as Project.- 5 The Pleasures of Learning to Write Language Poetry.- 6 A Poetics Journal.- 7 Creative Writing Online, Digital Ambience and Rhizomatic Practice.- 8 The Cultural Logic of Street Photography and Its Practice.- 9 Conclusion.