Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, and is now based in the UK. She is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a visiting humanities fellow at Oxford University’s TORCH in 2022. She has three poetry collections published including Letters Home (2020), which was named the Wild Card Choice by Poetry Book Society.

• Preface by Shirley LimIntroduction: Understanding concepts of home, identity and diaspora Chapter 1 - Bei Dao: A Sinophone diasporic poet and the poetic language of exileChapter 2 - Li-Young Lee: Exile, nostalgia and Oriental spiritualityChapter 3 - Marilyn Chin’s feminist poetics of protestChapter 4 - Hannah Lowe: Hybridity, multicultural heritage and classChapter 5 - Sarah Howe: Pilgrimage, Chinoiserie and translated identitiesChapter 6 - Race, sexuality and family in the poetry of Mary Jean ChanChapter 7 - Anglophone Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generationChapter 8 - Anglophone poetry in Hong Kong: Cosmopolitanism and a splitnotion of home Epilogue Appendix 1 - Author InterviewsAppendix 2 - Biographies of Poets DiscussedBibliographyIndex

Jennifer Wong’s innovative new study of Anglophone Asian diasporic poetry explores how notions of home, race, identity, and belonging are imaginatively made and re-made in the work of poets whose lives and verse traverse oceans and languages. Fusing literary commentary with in-depth interviews with practicing poets, this lucid and elegant book straddles criticism and creativity in illuminating ways, showing how the voices of living poets rightly belong in scholarly treatments of their work. This book a must-read for any scholar or student keen to understand the relationship between poetic form and experiences of migration, exile, and multiculturalism.