Hong Ying, I Too Am Salammbo (translated by Mabel Lee) This is a work of

This is a work of deep imagination and subtle humour

Conveyed upon a ‘river / that carries night under the earth’

& in singular language(s) that assert pluralism & always refuse the ‘seductions of amnesia

As Artistic Director of Red Room Poetry

His disillusioned irony

Hong Ying, I Too Am Salammbo (translated by Mabel Lee) This is a work ofSince 1988 Hong Ying has published six major collections of poetry, her most recent being I Too Am Salammbo, a retrospective collection of poems that she has selected and arranged in rough chronological order. As in her novels Hong Ying does not baulk at exploring female sexuality. She, as author, can only re present the characters of her novels in accordance with how she perceives them: as a woman. However her poetry is highly personal, shedding