Rethinking cultural identity and belonging: East and Southeast Asian Poets writing in and beyond Britain Jennifer Wong Cited in the preface to the State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast AsianRead More…
Something sets us looking for a place.
For many minutes every day we lose
ourselves to somewhere else. …
For Sarah Howe, the English-speaking daughter of an orphaned Chinese mother, the themes of motherhood and mother tongue are inextricably linked.
The daughter of an English father and Chinese mother, Sarah Howe was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. At the age of seven she moved with her family moved to London.
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