After more than 30 years of writing, poet Louise Ho is widely considered the doyenne of Hong Kong English-language literature. Her previous collection, New Ends, Old Beginnings , painted a vivid picture of life leading up to the territory's 1997 reunification with China. Her latest, Incense Tree , was released last month and is a career-spanning anthology of her best verse. Here are some of her inspirations.
Modernist poetry
For poets writing today it's difficult not to be influenced, whether positively or negatively, by the modernists. One...
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