Antony Huen is a literary critic, poet, and academic. He won the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize and came second for the 2022 Essay Prize of Women: A Cultural Review. His funded projects include Ekphrasis in Hong Kong Poetry in English: Late 1970s to Early 2020s (HKRGC, 2022-24). His pamphlet Hi-yah! was shortlisted for the 2023 Poetry London Pamphlet Prize. He holds a BA in English from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD in English from the University of York, where he was a doctoral fellow at the Humanities Research Centre. He was born and raised in Hong Kong. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the MFA in Creative Writing.
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some publications
criticism
Ecopoetic Encounters: Unsettling Anthropocentric Assumptions via Constraint-Based Anthologethnography (with Amelia Walker and others), New Writing, Jan 2025
Cosmopolitan Hybridity, Cultural Memory and Curation in Hong Kong Poetry (with Felix Chow), Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature, Dec 2023
Transculturalism, Transformation and the Visual Arts in Contemporary British Women's Poetry, Women: A Cultural Review, Mar 2023 [Women Poetry Prize]
The Hong Kong Moment: A Diasporic Poetics within the British Poetics, PN Review, Mar 2023
The 'old Hong Kong' and 'a gold-sifting bird': Hong Kong and Chinese Ekphrasis in Contemporary British Poetry, Wasafiri, Mar 2022 [Wasafiri Essay Prize]
conversations
Common Ground (with Helen Quah), State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, Out-Spoken, Oct 2023
Chinese and City Aesthetics: A Conversation with Jennifer Wong, World Literature Today, May 2022
Photographs, Photography and the Photographer: A Conversation with George Szirtes, Wasafiri, Aug 2019
poetry (in print)
NICAM, Zihua, Jul-Aug 2024
The Whale, Voice & Verse, Jan 2024
Amor, Orpheus Dreams of Eurydice: Meandering Cognitions, Sept 2023
Bauhinia x Blakeana, Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, May 2023
Chinatown, That Day, That Night, Ekphrasis, PN Review, Nov-Dec 2022
Brain Sea, Poetry Wales, Dec 2021
Self-Portrait as a Steamed Whole Fish, The Dark Horse, Jul 2021
poetry (digital)
Chinese Blackbirds, Ecopoetic Encounters: Manipulating Linguistic Voice to Unsettle Anthropocentric Assumptions, Feb 2024
Jumbo Kingdom, The Oxonian Review, Aug 2023
A Personal History of Hong Kong as 39 Everyday Objects, A Personal History of Home: An Anthology, Sept 2022
Horse Head, Visual Verse, Dec 2021
Chinese Horoscopes, harana poetry, Mar 2021
In the Woods, Your City, HK-SG Digital Travel Bubble, Feb 2021
Cantonese Proverbs, amberflora, Jan 2021
MYO-PIC, Ink Sweat & Tears, Oct 2020
some appearances
dialogues
Moderator, Hong Kong, Art and Poetry: Four Poets in Dialogue, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), 31 Jan 2024 (with Nicholas Wong, Jennifer Wong, Collier Nogues, and Tim Tim Cheng)
Speaker, State of Play Online Launch, via Zoom, 9 Nov 2023 (with Alvin Pang, Mukahang Limbu, Dong Li, and Laura Jane Lee; moderated by Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong)
Speaker, Writing Elsewhere: Chinese Diasporic Poets, National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), via Zoom, 11 Mar 2023 (with L Kiew and Karen Cheung; moderated by Jennifer Wong)
Speaker, Pigment to Pixel: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Dialogues for Artists in a Changing World, via Zoom, 1 Sept 2021 (with Peter Trippi; moderated by Elina Cerla)
conference papers
Radical Ekphrasis, Chinese Characters, and the Hong Kong School of Poets. The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) International Conference, Seoul National University, Korea, 12 Dec 2024
Artistic Influences in the Creative Practices of Hong Kong Poets. Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, University College London (UCL), England, 15 Jul 2023
Displacements and Visual Artists in the Poetry of Pascale Petit and George Szirtes. The Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) Conference, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, 12 Sept 2017
Reinvention of Mother: Photography and Memory in George Szirtes’ Poetry. The British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) International Conference, University of Birmingham, England, 30 Jun 2017
poetry readings
Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Galway, Ireland), Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF), Poetics of Home Festival: Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival, Positive Images Peace Festival (Coventry, England), and elsewhere
seminars and workshops
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section), Law Ting Pong Secondary School, St. Marks School, and elsewhere
Contact
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