“Looking at Festival Lights: Yam Gong’s Hong Kong Poetry Symposium” Promotes the Reading of and Research on Hong Kong Poetry
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Poster of the Looking at Festival Lights: Yam Gong’s Hong Kong Poetry Symposium
The Looking at Festival Lights: Yam Gong’s Hong Kong Poetry Symposium, organised by the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS), was held successfully on 10 December 2022.
Scholars, researchers and literature lovers interested in Hong Kong Poetry attended this symposium to discuss the artistic value of Yam Gong’s Hong Kong Poetry.
Six scholars in the field of Modern Chinese Literature were invited to give presentations. They come from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Over 30 poets, teachers, researchers and literature lovers participated in the symposium.
Yam Gong’s poetry combines traditional allusions and modern images. His poetic language combines modern Chinese, Cantonese and English, showing a rich artistic value. Several speakers said at the seminar that Yam Gong’s poetry is rich in literary meaning, deeply rooted in the beauty of folk language and customs, and deserves serious attention of the academic community.
