Loop of Jade Synopsis
Shortlisted For The Forward Prize For Best First Collection 2015. There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.' But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love - what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780701188696 |
| Publication date: |
7th May 2015 |
| Author: |
Sarah Howe |
| Publisher: |
Chatto & Windus an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Primary Genre |
Poetry
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Sarah Howe Press Reviews
'Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. This is a magnificent collection, surprising and moving in equal measure - I loved it.' -- Edmund de Waal
'A wonderful first collection - it isn't often you can say exquisite, original, erudite and adventurous all in one breath. Sarah Howe goes to the very heart of her own, her mother's and China's recent past.' -- Ruth Padel
'Sarah Howe's soulful poems are as vivid as a river flowing through the Chinese landscape, as alive as mothers calling to their children.' -- Xinran, author of The Good Women of China
'Mature and accomplished... Loop of Jade is one of the best first collections I've read in recent years' - Poetry Review
'The poems in Loop of Jade...move me in profound and previously unimaginable ways' -- Emma Lee, Moss Guardian
'[A] sinuous, shimmering, mirage-like debut collection' -- Roger Cox, Scotsman
About Sarah Howe
Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, and moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, was published in 2009, and she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2010. She lives in Cambridge and London.
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