[EVENT] INTERNATIONAL POETRY NIGHTS IN HONG KONG - 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Date: 19 - 24 November 2019

Topic: Speech and Silence

Cost: Free Admission to all panels and recitals. Tickets are required for music concerts. Please click here to reserve a seat.

Organiser: Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation

Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study

Noise Asia

School of Translation, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University Press 

University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (IPNHK) is an award-winning biennial poetry festival established by renowned contemporary Chinese poet Bei Dao. Since its debut in 2009 in Hong Kong, IPNHK has become the most influential series of international poetry events in the sinophone area, delivering internationally acclaimed poets’ thoughts and ideas about poetry to the Chinese-speaking worlds. Following its enormous success in the last decade, IPNHK celebrates its 10th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of Noise Asia in 2019. Gathering more than 50 world-renowned poets, musicians, translators and scholars, IPNHK 2019 presents an extravaganza of poetry and music events with the theme “Speech and Silence” in Hong Kong as well as in 10 different cities in China. 

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