Award-winning Poet Sarah Howe to Deliver Second Century Lecture

HKU Faculty of Arts has invited Hong Kong-born British poet Sarah Howe to deliver the Second Century Lecture at the University. In January of this year, she followed in the footsteps of literary greats, including Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, by winning the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her winning debut collection, Loop of Jade, is an ambitious exploration of her dual Anglo-Chinese heritage, drawing on themes of identity and displacement.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the event. Details are as follows:

Date: November 8, 2016, Tuesday

Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong

Language: English

About Sarah Howe:

Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her first book, Loop of Jade won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Having previously held fellowships at Cambridge University and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, she is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at University College London. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism (http://www.praccrit.com/).

About the Second Century Lecture Series:
The Second Century Lecture Series aims to maintain the momentum of the University's Centenary celebrations by bringing distinguished scholars in their field to share their experience and world-class expertise with the University and the public.

The Second Century Lecture is co-organised by the Faculty of Arts and the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Sarah Howe will appear in two other Hong Kong International Literary Festival events. For details, please visit: http://www.festival.org.hk/. She will also present a talk for Asia Art Archive (http://www.aaa.org.hk/SarahHowe).

For media enquiries or individual interview requests, please contact Mr Cyrus Chan, Events Coordinator, Faculty of Arts (tel: 3917 4984 email: cyrusc@hku.hk).