Pauline Burton
Pauline Burton teaches in the Division of Language Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.
Clearing Ground by Martin Alexander
PAULINE BURTON | 25 June 2004So, who reads poetry nowadays anyway? And who, apart from his family, friends and colleagues, and the lively minority who follow the English-language poetry performance scene in Hong Kong, would be interested in reading MARTIN ALEXANDER's first collection of poems, CLEARING GROUND?
To take the first question first -- cautious optimism. Poetry seems to be on the up-and-up throughout the English-speaking world, judging... [ more ]