Category: Andrew Barker
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Aftershock—When the Report Becomes the Story: Journalism as the Literature of Crisis” by Andrew Barker Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press,…
![[REVIEW] “𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘—When the Report Becomes the Story: Journalism as the Literature of Crisis” by Andrew Barker](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan.jpeg?w=500)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204—305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. “So choose your enemies, I’ve chosen…
![[REVIEW] “Between Heckle & Hush: The Public & Private Voices of a Poet” by Michael Ingham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/andrew-barker-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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[REVIEW] “Word-Kissed Truths: The Earned Simplicity of Andrew Barker’s Sonnets” by Jason Eng Hun Lee
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204—305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. Named after the bar where the…
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Also read Akin Jeje’s tribute to Reid Mitchell. I wrote two sonnets for Reid Mitchell (1955-2023); one a couple of years before he died and one, at Reid’s own instigation, some fifteen years ago. Reid had told me a story…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Two Sonnets for Reid Mitchell” by Andrew Barker](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/reid-michell-impression.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Andrew Barker, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Griffiths, The Kowloon English Club, Blacksmith Books, 2021. 292 pgs. Andrew Barker discusses Stephen Griffiths’s expat Hong Kong novel about a…
![[REVIEW] “The Expatriate, Itinerant Underclass: A Review of Stephen Griffiths’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏” by Andrew Barker](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/the-kowloon-english-club.png?w=1024)
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[Editors’ note: Go to “Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On”, which took place on 3 June 2019.] [Selected Works] [Andy’s biography] [Nelly Sachs’s “Corus of Orphans”] [Susan’s biography] [Yueran Zhang’s “The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square” | Guo Ting’s…
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{Written by Andrew Barker, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Henrik Hoeg, Away with Words: Poetry and Translations, CreateSpace, 2018. 122 pgs. Away With Words: Poems and Translations by…
![[Review] Getting into an Argument with Away with Words: Poems and Translation by Henrik Hoeg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/away-with-words_henrik-hoeg.jpg?w=960)
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We are very happy to announce that selected poems from the ten-year history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (November 2007-October 2017) will be published in a special edition of the Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine, Voice & Verse, in February 2018.…
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