Summer Cicadas by Jennifer Wong ISBN 9789889902117 | Paperback | Chameleon Press | June 2006 | HK$99.00 Buy this book from Paddyfield.com

Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Poetry... postcards of the heart Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and love. "Summer Cicadas is an extraordinary poetic reflection on place and displacement, on memory’s gains and its losses, that marks the emergence of a striking new voice in English poetry." -- Dr Jon Mee, Margaret Candfield Fellow in English, University College, Oxford "Summer Cicadas inaugurates a delightful new voice in Hong Kong poetry. Sophisticated and assured, Jennifer Wong explores the cityscapes of memory that have made up her life in Hong Kong and Britain with a rare subtlety, wit and clarity. This is an outstanding debut collection." -- Prof David Parker, Professor of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong "A quiet, almost silent, voice with a music that evokes lost loves, familiar and unfamiliar faces and places in Hong Kong and elsewhere. Jennifer Wong's poetry reminds us of the summer cicadas in our lives, so often not noticed but always there." -- Agnes Lam, The University of Hong Kong.