Yam Gong

Yam Gong, the pen name of Lau Yee-ching, is a celebrated Hong Kong poet whose honors include the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book 於是你沿街看節日的燈飾 [And so you look at festival lights along the street] (1997). He later published an extended edition of this collection titled 於是搬石你沿街看節日的燈飾 [And so moving a stone you look at festival lights along the street] (2010). Moving a Stone: Collected Poems of Yam Gong, translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in spring 2022.