Reviews

Review of Raymond Antrobus’s The Quiet Ear (Penguin) and Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe) edited by Rachel Boast for Wasafiri (2026)

Review of Romalyn Ante’s Agimat and Theophilus Kwek’s Commonwealth in Poetry Review (2025)

Review of Richard Scott’s That Broke Into Shining Crystals, Troy Cabida’s Symmetric of Bone and Kat Dixon’s eat the glitter in Under the Radar (coming soon)

Review of Eric Yip’s Exposure and Tim Tim Cheng’s The Tattoo Collector in Asian Review of Books (coming soon)

Review of Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter & Shash Trevett’s The Naming of Names in Under the Radar (November 2024)

Review of With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang on Asian Review of Books (4 October 2024)

Interview with Marilyn Chin – ‘Poetry as Resistance’ on Oxford Review of Books (26 August 2024)

Review of Rebecca Goss’s Latch, Marilyn Chin’s SAGE, Amy Acre’s Mothersong – Poetry Review (March 2024)

Review of Monica Youn’s From From in Asian Review of Books (December 2023)

Review of Jen Campbell’s Do Not Touch This Exhibit, Yang Lian’s A Tower Built Downwards and other titles for Under the Radar (2023)

Review of Emma Jeremy’s Sad Things Angry, Brother Poem by Will Harris and Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello for Under the Radar (2023)

Review of Jay Gao’s Imperium and Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Has Experienced An Emergency for Wasafiri (2023)

Review of Owlish by Dorothy Tse in Asian Cha (2023)

Review of Zeina Hashem Beck’s O, Sandeep Parmar’s FAUST and Jee-Leong Koh’s Inspector Inspector for Poetry School (2023)

Review of Wong May’s poetry in Belfield Literary Review – Wong May Special Issue guest edited by Kelly Michels)  (2023)

Review of Nancy Campbell’s Uneasy Pieces, Jennifer Lee Tsai’s La Mysterique, Mother of Flip Flops by Mukahang Limbu and Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight’s Ways of Healing for Under the Radar (2023)

Secret Constellations’: Conversation with Victoria Chang on The Trees Witness Everything and Dear Memory in Poetry London (2023)

Review of Oriental Silk by Xiaowen Zhu for Asian Review of Books (2022)

Review of Forty Names, Speculum, and Honorifics for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal (2022)

Review of Khairani Barokka’s Ultimatum Orangutan for Poetry School (2021)

Review of Romalyn Ante’s An Antimetic for Homesickness in Wasafiri (August 2021)

Review of Kostya Tsolakis’s Ephebos for Under the Radar (2021)

Conversation with Marilyn Chin in Asian Review of Books (2020)

Review of Carolyn Forche’s In the Lateness of the World and Jane Hirschfield’s Ledger in PN Review (Winter 2020)

Review of Caroline Bird’s The Air Year, Martha Sprackland’s Citadel and Peter Finch’s The Machineries of Joy in Magma Poetry (November 2020)

Review of Franny Choi’s Soft Science and Theophilus Kwek’s Moving House in Poetry London (Autumn 2020)

Review of Will Harris’s RENDANG and Jason Eng Hun Lee’s Beds in the East in Stand 18.2(2020)

Review of five recent pamphlets in Poetry Review (Autumn 2019)

Review of My Mountain Country by Ye Lijun, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain on Asian Review of Books (2019)

Review of Vahni Capildeo’s Venus as a Bear and Sean Borodale’s Asylum in Poetry Review (Spring 2019)

‘On Home, Belongingness and Multicultural Britain: a conversation with Hannah Lowe’ on World Literature Today (March 2018)

‘Redeeming desire: a conversation with Li-Young Lee’ on World Literature Today (January 2018)

‘Home, routes and identity: an interview with Theophilus Kwek’ in Asian Cha edited by Tammy Ho (2018)

Review of Sean Wai Keung’s i am mistaken and Zosia Kuczyńska’s Pisanki in Poetry London (Spring 2018)

Various book reviews in Asian Review of Books, including on Bei Dao, Madeleine Thien, Zeina Hashem Beck – read online

Review of five pamphlets in Poetry Review (Winter 2017)

Review on Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Wayne Holloway-Smith’s Alarum and Angelina D’Roza’s Envies the Birds in Poetry Review

‘An interview with Jee Leong Koh’ in The Adroit Journal (2017)

Review of Zeina Hashem Beck’s pamphlet There Was and How Much There Was in Sabotage Review (Dec 2016)

Review of poetry collections by contemporary Chinese poets including Lan Lan, Wang Xiaoni and Marilyn Chin in Poetry London (February 2016)

Review of Jee Long Koh’s poetry collection for Asian Review of Books (January 2016)

‘An interview with Agnes Lam’ in Wasafiri (February 2017) – for Chinese version, please see Voice & Verse edited by Chris Song

Review on Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Do You Live In? (8 November 2015)

Book review on Eleanor Goodman’s translation of Wang Xiaoni mentioned in Notes on the Mosquito – click here (August 2014)

Review on The Lost Novel by James Shea on Asian Review of Books

Review on Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader: Selected Poetry and Drama translated by Mani Rao, on Asian Review of Books

Review on Sakutaro Hagiwara’s Cat Town translated by Hiroaki Sato, New York Review of Books. 30 November 2014. http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com

Review on Bare Fiction Issue 3 edited by Robert Harper, on Sabotage Reviews. 20 October 2014 www.sabotagereviews.com

Review on Wang Xiaoni’s poetry collection Something Crosses My Mind trans. Eleanor Goodman, published by Zephyr Press. 16 August 2014

Review on Tiffany Atkinson, Sally Goldsmith and W N Herbert for Magma issue 59, edited by Roberta James and Alex Pryce, July 2014 www.magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-59

Book review on Rob MacKenzie’s The Good News (Salt Publishing 2013) on Eyewear – click here (25 May 2014)

A Review on The North End of the Possible by Andrew Philip, 2 February 2014 http://www.toddswift.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/guest-review-wong-on-philip.html

A review on The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan. January 2014.

A review on New Cathay: contemporary Chinese poetry anthology edited by Ming Di, November 2013

A review on Phaidon Chinese Art Book, 18 October 2013. www.thehousenews.com

A review on A Pond in the Sky by Agnes Lam, published by Association of Stories in Macao, May 2013

A review on New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in Chinese, translated by John Balcom, published by Asian Review of Books July 2013

A review on The Surreal, edited by Jane Alison, published by Barbican Art Gallery, 2010
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A review on three Macau, Chinese & Hong Kong poetry collections by Leung Ping-kwan, Kit Kelen and Song Zhijiang, published on Asian Cha www.asiancha.com