Yam Gong

Yam Gong (Chinese: 飲江; born December 1949) is the pseudonym of the Hong Kong poet Lau Yee-ching (Chinese: 劉以正).

Yam Gong
Born1949
Hong Kong
OccupationPoet

Biography

Born in Hong Kong, Yam Gong began writing poetry in the 1970s. He has received the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award (1983) and the Workers’ Literature Award (1982; 1984), and, in 1998, he received the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (1997).[1] In 1987, he co-founded the poetry magazine One-Ninth and was involved in editing the first few issues. Lau has been appointed to the juries of several poetry awards in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, the Qui Ying Poetry Award and the Lee Sing-wah Modern Poetry Award. He has presented his work at various literary festivals, such as the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, the Macau Literary Festival, and the Taipei Poetry Festival,[2] among others.

Published works

His first book of poems, And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street, was published in 1997. He later published an extended edition called And So Moving a Stone You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (2010), a collection of more than 130 poems.

His poems have been published in various journals in Hong Kong, including Pangu, Poetry Bi-monthly, Hong Kong Literature, Ming Pao, P-articles,[3] and Fleurs des lettres.[4]

See also

References
  1. "香港公共圖書館 - 飲江先生". www.hkpl.gov.hk. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. "2019臺北詩歌節-歷屆詩歌節". poetryfestival.taipei. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  3. "深河 | 飲江 |". p-articles.com. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. "飲江|特朗普 郁啲都 廣東話|別字第十五期". zihua.org.hk. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
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