If I Do Not Reply is the first UK collection by Hong Kong poet Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, and brings us a welcome new voice to speak of matters in a place too often seen through expatriate, rather than native eyes. Hong Kong may once have been a borrowed place, on borrowed time, situated physically in one world, and mentally somewhere between two, but its current uncomfortable position finds an apt chronicler here.



"A unique poetic testament of life in and out of Hong Kong between 2019 and 2022, spanning the Covid epidemic, and unrelentingly outspoken and courageous in defence of human freedoms facing systemic repression. Yet subject matter isn't all. Gifted in every aspect of her poetic craft. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is witty, clever, passionate - and acutely observant of the inner life. Although written with a Hong Kong sensibility, these poems transcend contemporality and location. They map our times: all our times." -Richard Berengarten


About the Author
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born poet, translator, scholar, and former tenured professor of English literature. She is the editor-in-chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first English editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and a founding co-editor of Hong Kong Studies, currently the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to research on Hong Kong affairs. Tammy's first collection of poetry was Hula Hooping (Chameleon, 2015), for which she won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her first short-story collection Her Name Upon the Strand (Delere Press), her second poetry collection Too Too Too Too (Math Paper Press), and chapbook An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong (Musical Stone) were published in 2018. She is also the author of the academic volume Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave, 2019) and she has published widely on Hong Kong literature and culture. Her poems have been translated into Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese. She was a Fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in 2023.



Book Information
ISBN 9781848619128
Author Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Shearsman Books
Publisher Shearsman Books
Weight(grams) 177g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm