Hong Kong Without Us:
a people’s poetry
The culmination of our work since 2019, Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. The poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials, and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices.
Jeffrey Yang calls it a “landmark anthology. . . . This is what a people’s poetry feels like in a wrecked world: numinous heat in the floating city of the oppressed.”
Alex Chow (周永康) describes the book as “a work of 吉光片羽.”
Ilya Kaminsky writes: “This is one of the most moving and humanly compelling testaments I have ever read. . . . The beautiful, despairing, inspired, and unforgettable chorus of voices in this book is a testimony, it is a poetics of witness in the truest sense.”
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From Ysabelle Cheung’s review of the book in the Mekong Review: “While there are poems that do reference physical wounds, the book deals much more with the somatic psyche. As violence is often egotistical, the deliberate absence of a singular voice, of the individualistic, identifiable ‘I’, becomes itself a resistance. Instead, in sparse bursts we hear a collective experience of haunting . . .”
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Now available from Georgia Review Books
(an imprint of University of Georgia Press),
or from Amazon, or a bookstore near you.
All royalties from this book will go toward supporting oppressed Hong Kong youth who are struggling or persecuted because of the protests.
