laura jane lee
poet, and other things.featured in The Straits Times and Tatler Asia
"flinch & air" available at Kinokuniya Singapore
who
Photo Credit: Marcus Poon (@parc.moon)
Laura Jane Lee is a Hong Kong-born poet, currently based between Singapore and Scotland.She is a winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize under her birth name, and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.Her work has been featured in The Straits Times, Tatler Asia, Poetry London, Ambit, QLRS, and the 52nd Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.Laura Jane also works with the Asia Creative Writing Programme, and is Editor-in-Chief of SPLOOSH's Magazine. She serves as Marketing Editor on the poetry.sg team. Her most recent pamphlet "flinch & air" was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2021.Much of her writing and poetic practice is informed by the work of Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye. She wants to be Durga Chew-Bose when she grows up.
what
books
- flinch & air @ kinokuniya SG
- buy flinch & air from the Poetry Book Society
- buy flinch & air from the press
- buy flinch & air from bookdepo
reviews & features
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2023 | Shortlist
- the days of the dog | The 52nd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
- flinch & air | The Straits Times Singapore Shelf
- ‘We are a floating island’: 102 Hong Kong poets across continents write the city’s new chapter in Where Else | The Straits Times
- flinch & air | Poetry London- Poetry at the Precipice of the World
- flinch & air | Cultural Expression in the Chinese Diaspora module for MLitt Chinese Cultural Studies- University of St Andrews
- flinch & air | Dundee University Review of the Arts
- flinch & air | Mekong Review
- flinch & air | RHINO Poetry
- flinch & air | Asian Books Blog
- flinch & air | Kitaab
- leave me a review on goodreads!
academic citations
- Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (by Jennifer Wong) | 7 "Anglophone-Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generation"
- The Hong Kong Moment: A Diasporic Poetics within the British Poetics (by Antony Huen) | PN Review
- Cosmopolitan Hybridity, Cultural Memory and Curation in Hong Kong Poetry | Writing Chinese A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
editorships & community work
- poetry.sg | Marketing Editor
- Asia Creative Writing Programme | Student Assistant
- SPLOOSH Magazine | Editor-in-Chief
- KongPoWriMo | Founder
workshops
Raffles Institution
Hwa Chong Institution (Junior College)
Nanyang Technological University
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School
Fairfield Methodist Primary School
Nan Chiau Primary School
Montfort Secondary School
Unity Secondary School
Invictus International School
publications
- A Singapore Unbound Book of the Year 2021 | flinch & air
- home is nowhere, therefore you | QLRS Vol. 20 No. 3 Jul 2021
- Metaphor as Metamorphosis I
- Ambit Magazine | AMBIT X DONGOLA The War Issue, 248
- WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023)
- State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Out-Spoken Press, 2023)
- then you did the unthinkable, | Bellingham Review Issue 87
- my body was always supposing | bath magg Issue 13
review writing
- "A Poetic Statement – and a Linguistic One" - a Review of Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan | QLRS Vol. 23 No. 1 Jan 2024
- "Strange Girl" - a Review of A Bad Girl's Book of Animals by Wong May | QLRS Vol. 22 No. 3 Jul 2023
- Review: 'Tastes Like A Bot, But Is Not': New poetry by Daryl Lim Wei Jie
- My own heart- a Review of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
when
in the future
in the past
- NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music 2024
- Singapore Writers Festival 2023 | Moderator | (Re)visiting Sing Lit
- Raffles Institution Creative Writing Festival
- Spoke & Bird presents: Joel Tan, Laura Jane Lee, Max Pasakorn
- The 52nd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
- Sing Lit Station: We'll Tell You Everything
- Spoke & Bird #49: Laura Jane Lee, Esther Vincent & Cat Chong
- poetry & society on poetics of home
- creative writing @ ntu event
- The Crimson Sunbird | New Fruits: Creative Eco-Writing from NTU & Leeds University Emerging Writers
- NTU Arts Festival 2023 | Poetry Workshops
- NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music 2023
where
find me on the internet at these places: