Category: Kate Rogers

  • {Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being, University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 320 pgs. In her…

    [REVIEW] “A Cool Fish: Xu Xi’s 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑜𝑤𝑙: 𝐸𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔” by Kate Rogers
  • ➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Kate Rogers’s “Twenty…

    Kate Rogers
  • {Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Konstandinos Mahoney, Tutti Frutti, SPM Publications, 2018. 78 pgs. Tutti Frutti is a wonderful collection of condensed, original,…

    [REVIEW] “The Love Songs of Dino Mahoney” by Kate Rogers
  • As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, I have now taught nine 90-minute creative writing workshops for female refugees affiliated with the Christian…

    “A Spirit of Cooperation and Mutual Support: On Teaching Creative Writing to Female Refugees and Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong” by Kate Rogers
  • September 2018 I have now taught four 90-minute classes with the same women refugee students connected to the Christian Action Centre for Refugees. They come from countries ranging from Sri Lanka to the Congo. What they all have in common…

    “Reflection on Teaching Refugee Women for Christian Action Centre for Refugees” by Kate Rogers
  • {Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Toh Hsien Min (author) and Jacques Rancourt (translator), Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles, Editions Caracteres, 2016. 134…

    [REVIEW] “A Tame Paradise: Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles and From Walden to Woodlands” by Kate Rogers
  • On Saturday 21 April 2018, the Education Bureau and SCOLAR (Standing Committee on Language Education and Research) co-organised the 2018 World Book Day Fest. It is a full-day event that promotes reading in Hong Kong.  . Cha editors Tammy Ho…

    Poetry Teahouse at 2018 World Book Day Fest
  • {Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephanie Han, Swimming in Hong Kong, Willow Spring Books, 2017. 134 pgs. On the surface, “Swimming in Hong…

    [REVIEW] “Connection and Marginalisation: Stephanie Han’s 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Kate Rogers
  • I presented a 90 minute poetry workshop, “Things I Love and Hate” on Friday 23 March 2018 for refugee women. The workshop was requested by the Christian Action Centre for Refugees as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership…

    “Reflection on Teaching Refugee Women for Christian Action” by Kate Rogers
  • {Written by Rochelle Potkar, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kate Rogers, Out of Place, Aeolous House, 2017. 65 pgs. Kate Rogers’ latest collection of poetry, Out of…

    [REVIEW] The Solution Is to Read Slowly: Kate Rogers’s Out of Place
  • 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.…

    Announcement: Collaboration with Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
  • In early July, we sent out a call for poems about the Chinese Government’s White Paper on the “One Country, Two Systems” principle in Hong Kong. At the time, the publication of the paper, which formally precluded true democracy within…

    Whither Hong Kong? A Preface
  • Pictured: Hong Kong Column – Translated (http://facebook.com/hkcolumn) Introduction Cha is seeking entries on the theme “Hong Kong Isn’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon” in response to the Chinese Government’s White Paper (click here for more information) to be included in a…

    Call for Submissions: "Hong Kong Isn’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon"
  • The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…

  • The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…

  • – Poetry doesn’t get better than this! “Visiting and local poets read their own and others’ work in a sticky, noisy and unpredictable mix, ring-mistressed by Viki Holmes. Ticket price includes a $30 drinks voucher redeemable at the door.” Friday,…

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  • From the event host, Kate Rogers: Dear Poetry Lovers, October is coming to a close and what better way to see in November than with a spooky poetry reading featuring writers from the International Writers’ Workshop and our local Outlouders?…

  • Time: 26 October · 07:30 – 14:00Location: Peel Fresco Lounge, Peel Street, Hong Kong Enjoy an evening of poetry and jazz with poets from the International Writers Workshop and some of the best Hong Kong-based writers, including Kate Rogers, Nicole…

  • There is an interview with Cha contributors Viki Holmes and Kate Rogers in Writers’ Digest. They talk about their own poetry writing and their edited anthology, Not A Muse. Read the interview here. – Viki Holmes’s poetry was published in…

  • We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010, published by Sundress Publications. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! – – Poetry =Rosanna…

  • The following lectures and readings at City University Hong Kong in Kowloon Tong will be open to the public during the week long MFA summer residency program: Sessions open to the public (7:30 – 9:00 pm in LT7 unless otherwise…

  • Several Cha contributors have creative works published in the new issue of Asia Literary Review (Vol. 16, Summer 2010). Read O Thiam Chin’s “Grasshoppers“, “Turning a Blind Eye” and “Fireworks“; Steven Hirst’s “It’s All in the Silhouette“, Kristine Ong Muslim’s…

  • –––– one by one – one person: one poem ~ story ~ song… – the following poets/writers/artists will perform– agnes lam akin jeje andy barker blair reeve brian mulcahy yuen che-hung christian johnson zheng danyi dave mckirdy fanny-min becker chan…

  • Cha contributors Martin Alexander, Andrew Barker, Blair Reeve, Jason Lee, Ouyang Yu, Kate Rogers, Viki Holmes and Xu Xi will be featured in the 2010 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival (11-19 March). More details can be found here. Read…

  • Cha contributors Viki Holmes, Sushma Joshi, Kate Rogers and Ng Yi-Sheng will be appearing in the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Support them by joining the festival! Viki Holmes’s poetry was published in issue#3 of Cha and her review of…

  • HAVEN BOOKS invites you to a special evening of modern Thai cuisine, live jazz music, and vivaciously satisfying poetry Performing poets include Joy Al-Sofi, Nashua Gallagher, Claire Lee, Erica Lyons, Aaliya Zaveri and Cha contributors Viki Holmes and Kate Rogers.…