Category: Jason S PolleyβCHA
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kawika Guillermo, Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir, Duke University Press, 2023. 240 pgs. Fuck βem all. Squares on bothsides. I am the only completeman in the industry.βBurroughs, Naked Lunch…
![[REVIEW] β ‘________________________’: Rererecapitulating Kawika Guillermoβs Devastatingly Wondrous πππππππ : π΄ πΉπππ-ππ’ππ ππππ-π»π’ππ‘ π΄ππ‘π-ππππππ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/kawika-guillermo-devastating-nimrods-a-fake-punk-self-hurt-anti-memoir-.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Matthew Wong Foreman, Sunset at Lion Rock, Proverse Press, 2024. 288 pgs. ………Iβve no strength left to stop the contradiction………My heart is tired and my eyes blurry you know………βLeslie…
![[REVIEW] “Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Among Many, Many Other Things: Matthew Wong Foremanβs ππ’ππ ππ‘ ππ‘ πΏπππ π
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliverβs Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation, Zeta Books, 2020. 356 pgs. I imagine, that in the Great Deluge, 2 sworn Enemies, having clumb up onto the same…
![[REVIEW] ββWhat is He Doing Playing Fantastickall Fictive Games with Realitie?β Or, βA Pandemonium of Embracesβ: Luxuriating in Douglas Robinsonβs Transcreation of Volter Kilpiβs Unfinished πΊπ’ππππ£ππβπ πππ¦πππ π‘π πβπππ‘ππππππβ by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gullivers-voyage-to-phantomimia-a-transcreation-1.png?w=1024)
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Jason S Polley read two poems by Wallace Stevensβboth are available in the public domain. PHASES I.Thereβs…
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yi T’aejun (author), Janet Poole (translator),…
![[Review] “Deep down he felt a little jealous of his own writing; or, time never passes as quickly as when holding a penβYi T’aejun’s π·π’π π‘ πππ ππ‘βππ ππ‘πππππ ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dust-and-other-stories_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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As part ofΒ the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU,Β I visited students at the Shek Mun campus of the College of International Education (CIE),…
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ThisΒ ChaΒ and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. event was part ofΒ the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, and it was conducted on Sunday 11…
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel, Westphalia, 2018. 360 pgs. He understood that need to escape, but…
![[REVIEW] “‘So punk in drublic’; or, ‘Stepping in her footprints to erase your being here’βKawika Guillermo’sΒ Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/stamped1.jpg?w=313)
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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, I visited students at CCC Kung Lee College on Monday 30 April 2018, invited by one of the teachers there, William Ng, who was a former student at Hong Kong Baptist University..The…
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Written by Jason S Polley. WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. was officially registered in 2011 as a non-profit and charitable organisation and its primary objective is to support the capacity building and empowerment of migrant communities regardless of nationalities and…
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Henry Wei Leung, Goddess of Democracy:…
![[REVIEW] “Eloquence, Anger, SincerityβHenry Wei Leung’s πΊπππππ π ππ π·ππππππππ¦: π΄π ππππ’ππ¦ πΏπ¦πππ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/leung-goddess-cover-21.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Christopher DeWolf, Borrowed…
![[REVIEW] “Impromptu Performances and Wild Exhibitions: Christopher DeWolf’s π΅πππππ€ππ ππππππ : πΏπππ π΅ππ‘π€πππ π‘βπ πΆπππππ ππ ππππππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/97807343108591.jpg?w=400)
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