Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ4 – 6pm, 16.09.2023

Librarians-in-ResidenceFlitting, Missing, Landing…An Afternoon Reading With Minying Huang , Travis Jeppesen and Eric Yip

Minying Huang

Minying Huang is a poet, writer, and doctoral student in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work appears in fourteen poems, wildness, Palette Poetry, Foglifter, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. In 2021, they were shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize. They grew up in Cambridge, UK.

Travis Jeppesen

Travis Jeppesen is the author of numerous books, including Wolf at the Door, All Fall: Two Novellas, The Suiciders, See You Again in Pyongyang, and Bad Writing. His calligraphic and text-based art work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Wilkinson Gallery (London), Exile (Berlin), and Rupert (Vilnius), and featured in group exhibitions internationally. In April 2023, his play Ghosts of the Landwehr Canal was premiered at Berliner Ringtheater under the direction of Ping-Hsiang Wang, and in November 2023, Itna Press will publish Jeppesen’s latest novel, Settlers Landing.

Eric Yip

Eric Yip (葉晉瑋) has published his poems in The Poetry Review, Magma, The Adroit Journal, and Best New Poets. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Written. He was a Poetry Society Young Critic with reviews forthcoming in Poetry London and Magma and is a co-host of Ying Si Hak Yi, a Cantonese podcast on global Anglophone poetry. He has performed his work at venues including St Paul’s Cathedral, The Common Press, Verve Poetry Festival, and BBC Radio 4. He was born and raised in Hong Kong and is currently based in Cambridge, UK, where he studies.


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