Light Year

Jennifer Wong is a Hong Kong-born poet who lives in the UK. She studied English at Oxford and has an MA and PhD in creative writing from University of East Anglia and Oxford Brookes. She has three collections including Letters Home (Nine Arches Press). She is the co-editor of State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Outspoken Press, 2023) and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023). She is also the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury, 2023).

‘Jennifer Wong’s dazzling collection maps a constellation of memory and generational inheritance with language that is both spare and luminous. From star factories to Golden Bauhinia Square, these poems assemble the fractured histories of Hong Kong and China while untying deeper knots of collective trauma. Crossing thresholds between the past and the imagined, Light Year reveals the fragility of what we inherit and the resilience found in re-telling it. History repeats, refracts, and reshapes itself—yet in Wong’s hands, it becomes radiant.’