Kit Fan was born and educated in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at twenty-one. His second collection, As Slow as Possible, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, one of the Guardian’s fifty biggest books in 2018, and The Irish Times Poetry Book of the Year.
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Hong Kong and the Echo
What do we know but that we face
One another in this place?
– W. B. Yeats, “Man and the Echo”
HK. I loved my mountains, rivers, and tr…
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