Accidental Occidental by David McKirdy ISBN 9789889836214 | Hardback | Chameleon Press | May 2005 | HK$145.00 Buy this book from Paddyfield.com

We share the same genes although we speak a subtle different tongue of generations and geography and time. Both still drawn to the sound of the sea that lies between us. In Accidental Occidental, a unique collage of words and images, David McKirdy spins an Asian tapestry of people, places and impressions. A madness fostered by too much distance and too much time masked my total alienation from this totally alien nation. So I'll return cynically clinically wiser, an accidental occidental, re-oriented. One of Hong Kong's best-known poets, David McKirdy was born in Scotland, raised in Hong Kong and confused in England when he arrived there for the first time as a twenty-year-old. Once he returned to Hong Kong, he never left again.

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