This week, we would like to call your attention to a book talk:
Decapitated Poetry: The 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize book talk
Ko-hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in Taiwan and remains a foundational work in Taiwanese poetry. Decades after it first appeared in 1995, this collection retains the capacity to shock, appall, and jolt readers into recognizing homosexuality as its own specific category of being.
For this event, we invite translators Wen-chi Li and Colin Bramwell to share their experiences translating Chen’s queer poetry, read selected poems, and discuss queer literature in Taiwan.
Date: 25 February 2025
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Main Building, SOAS University of London,
Room R201
For more information, please visit the SOAS website:
