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Leung Rachel Ka Yin is a 21-year-old student of Psychology at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, from the vibrant city of Hong Kong. Born and raised in The Pearl of the Orient, which has had great influence on her writing; she attended Diocesan Girls’ School and Li Po Chun United World College.
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She has been a fervent lover of poetry, since a young age, starting out as a Hong Kong Budding Poet at the Hong Kong Academy of Gifted Education, and going on to earn Second Place in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theyounglaureateaward.com/results-prizes">Young Laureate’s Award</a> (national literacy competition) with her poetry. A number of her poems have been published in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.chineseupress.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=3890">Proverse Poetry Prize</a> (Single Poems) 2018 Anthology as well as ASH, the termly literary journal of the Oxford University Poetry Society, among others. Two of her poems have been awarded Second Place and Special Commendation in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brookes.ac.uk/poetry-centre/international-poetry-competition/">Oxford Brookes</a> International Poetry Competition 2018 (EAL Category). She is also the winner of the White Label Debut Collection Competition- Deux, and will have her debut collection published as a pamphlet with the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/">Hedgehog Poetry Press</a> in March 2020.
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Rachel is passionate about feminism and mental health, and other than writing and editing poetry, she spends her time writing non-fiction articles on style and culture, which can be found at <a target="_blank" href="https://phasermagazine.com/">Phaser Magazine</a>.
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<p>Poetry magazine in Oxford dedicated to creating a space for amateur student poets to share their work</p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2009</span></h4>
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<span>Commendation</span>
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Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Awards 2009-2010 (Open Section) - Poet of the School
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2016</span></h4>
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<span>First Runner-Up</span>
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Young Laureate Award 2016 (Advanced Level)
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2018</span></h4>
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<span>Publication of four poems</span>
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<p class="mb-0">Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 (Single Poems): Mingled Voices 3</p>
<footer class="blockquote-footer"><cite title="Source Title">"The New Americana"</cite></footer>
<footer class="blockquote-footer"><cite title="Source Title">"The seven hundred and ninety-six"</cite></footer>
<footer class="blockquote-footer"><cite title="Source Title">"Mary-Sue"</cite></footer>
<footer class="blockquote-footer"><cite title="Source Title">"Sweet like a Bao"</cite></footer>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2018</span></h4>
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<span>First Runner Up - <i>"Sweet like a bao"</i></span>
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<span>Special Commendation - <i>"Lune"</i></span>
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Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2018 (EAL Category)
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2018</span></h4>
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<span>Publication of poem</span>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Winner - Publication of debut collection</span>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="qipao-preview" target="_blank" href="https://phasermagazine.com/main/2019/4/29/the-rise-and-evolution-of-the-qipao">PHASER Magazine: The Rise and Evolution of the Qipao</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="grunge-preview" target="_blank" href="https://phasermagazine.com/main/2019/5/19/tips-to-get-that-grungey-eye-look-youve-been-seeing-everywhere">PHASER Magazine: Tips to get THAT grunge eye look you’ve been seeing everywhere</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="chanel-preview" target="_blank" href="https://www.nylon.com.sg/2019/07/travel-the-world-with-these-new-rimowa-luggage-colours/">NYLON Magazine: A Look at Chanel’s Autumn-Winter Pre-Collection ’19 Accessories</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="exfoliation-preview" target="_blank" href="https://www.nylon.com.sg/2019/07/everything-you-need-to-know-about-exfoliation/">NYLON Magazine: Everything You Need To Know About Exfoliation</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="rimowa-preview" target="_blank" href="https://www.nylon.com.sg/2019/07/travel-the-world-with-these-new-rimowa-luggage-colours/">NYLON Magazine: Travel The World With These New RIMOWA Luggage Colours</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2019</span></h4>
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<span>Published article</span>
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<p class="mb-0"><a class="hermes-preview" target="_blank" href="https://www.nylon.com.sg/2019/07/channel-classic-enduring-charm-with-these-hermes-aw19-accessories/">NYLON Magazine: Channel Classic, Enduring Charm with These Hermès AW19 Accessories</a></p>
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<h4 class="cbp_tmtime"><span>2020</span></h4>
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<span>Forthcoming Publication</span>
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<footer class="blockquote-footer">launching March 2020, by the <cite title="Source Title">Hedgehog Poetry Press</cite></footer>
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<a class="carousel-item"data-href="#poem-3" data-title="Mary-Sue"><img src="img/poem_thumbnails/mary_sue.jpg"></a>
<a class="carousel-item" data-href="#poem-4" data-title="Sweet like a Bao"><img src="img/poem_thumbnails/sweet_like_a_bao.jpg"></a>
<a class="carousel-item" data-href="#poem-5" data-title="caped with the stars, wearing the moon: lune（披星戴月)"><img src="img/poem_thumbnails/lune.jpg"></a>
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">paper drunk, gold bewitched: the new americana (紙醉金迷)</h4>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-for laurice-</h6>
<p class="text-center poem-font"><br>[published in Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 (Single Poems): Mingled Voices 3]</p>
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<p class="poem poem-font">“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
<span style="white-space:normal">Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” -Thomas Parke D'Invilliers</span></i>
love, sing me a daisy, a fistful a penny
rain fever sweet in your riotous twenties
star-spangled, light-speckled, glitter aplenty
love, sing me a maqam* and i promise to cry
you tears of black gold, till you will have me, high
on your stones, breathe in my bones, my bones, bone-dry.
you had your lush, lush rush, your roaring nights
of brazen swirling silken shirts, wet, stretched tight
over my heart of cold, vulgar, veblen-esque delight
and i, since you have left, have been scratching at it
a scab- a little, jaded, cynical something unfit to skip to stop,
buried deep in greenback kisses
love, sing me a song- anything-
drown me in my pool of roses,
of glimmering silver rings,
in your voice full of money, of snapped fairy wings
ain’t it a kitschy world, love,
all that glitters is not gold.
just like me,
look closely,
guldet blev til sand*.
<span style="white-space: normal">*maqam: the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music</span>
<span style="white-space: normal">*guldet blev til sand: Swedish, “gold turned into sand”, from the musica Kristina från Duvemåla (1995)</span></p>
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">the seven hundred and ninety-six</h4>
<p class="poem-publication poem-font text-center"><br>[published in Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 (Single Poems): Mingled Voices 3]</p>
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<p class="poem poem-font">who will vindicate us, the illegitimate?
the born, the alive, flailing, with wizened limbs,
with our white-capped heads hidden under bonnets, hidden
from sight, only wanted until we are
born.
send help,
the good help,
the good help to help us go
from womb to tomb
to tomb but
not even a tomb.
we envy our unborn brethren.
they turn in their wombs, their gestation a sacrament
denied us in living and we cry
for our mothers, mothers, mothers,
our fathers disavowed
of us and
we turn in our tomb but it’s
not even a tomb.
tell us, tell us our bones,
where we are to go
to save us the suffering of being
birthed
birthed into a world
that is adamant on our birth then
washes its hands of us.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">Mary-Sue</h4>
<p class="poem-publication poem-font text-center"><br>[published in Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 (Single Poems): Mingled Voices 3]</p>
<p class="poem poem-font">here lies i,
perfunctory glorified
ascetic white-laden
flawless paper maiden
and me, so bitter,
i chew my own bones for dinner
the rebel didactic mystique
femme hitler sympathique
think not otherwise,
want not, reprise her demise,
so was her and her before her
to grace recluse, for the true debonair.
swim with cold fish, or
else lash out and be a pretty airhead whore,
spit, spit out black feelings.
content to drown in fractured glass ceilings.
ask me why i’m so confused
how the hell i managed to lose
my soul in his cologne-
go,
puppet show
John Doe, Monroe.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">Sweet like a Bao</h4>
<p class="poem-publication poem-font text-center"><br>[Second Place in Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2018 (EAL Category)]</p>
<p class="poem-publication poem-font text-center"><br>(A pastiche of Michael Ondaatje’s poem, 'Sweet Like a Crow')</p>
<p class="poem poem-font">Your voice sounds like the red of a lampshade
at the wet market
like the flopping of fish on the chopping block
like swearing taxi drivers
like a leaky AC unit, like the innards of a
too-hot dimsum, like a stray cat meowing,
a chow-mein being chowed
a truck mixing concrete
a canton opera at the Central Pier.
Like an Octopus card beep,
like a plethora of neon light boxes
like pergolas in the park,
a chestnut shell, an MTR crowd
when the doors are closing
like the speed meter on a red minibus
like Char Siu Bao,
an old-style cash register, like a million
Mark Six balls being scrambled, like someone
trying to sub-divide a flat,
the opening jingle of a TV documentary three doors down,
a really uninteresting PSA on Radio One,
the sound of a waiter when someone is slow to order,
like durians being opened on a rock
like a whole housing estate airing out their dirty laundry
on a Monday, like an enthusiastic beginner
shuffling the Mahjong tiles, like Cha Chaan Teng,
like 7 oranges rolling down the slope
like 5 pickpockets pickpocketing
like the sound I heard when having an afternoon sleep
and someone tried to tune the piano.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">caped with the stars, wearing the moon: lune（披星戴月)</h4>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-for victor-</h6>
<p class="text-center poem-font"><br>[Special Commendation in Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2018 (EAL Category)]</p>
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I
sink, sink deep
and
carve a niche into my head
fish scales falling
fall
fall the way
still-green leaves
fall like rain
wind,
wind,
sky
grey
a concrete lightness
simmering stones and
stale week-old tea bags
stuck
a splinter
a lancet
a three-inch tarantula in my side
i cannot look you in
the eye, the eye, the eye.
II
it sings
it stops
it threatens to turn me inside out
from the throat
from the seams
in.
my
my
my
fingers you were holding as we
navigate the crowded platform
in the warm wind,
white light
on the train
kite-running from the smashed window-panes
a fishing line
a telephone line
a flying
crescent ridge, half lune
never the sun but always the moon.
it sighs in technicolour
spin, spin, spinning.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">the house of dried fish: dreaming and waterless(枯魚之肆)</h4>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-for vanessa-</h6>
<p class="text-center poem-font"><br>[published in ASH Michaelmas 2019]</p>
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lend me
the thrill, the terrible thrill
of a waterless fish.
fresh and desperate,
and eyes and fins and gills
palpitating a silence, wide-open
on the tarmac, dreaming
of quicksand and molasses and road-kill,
gulping, in the fragrant swathes of sun.
nothing of how lidless,
and permeable and defenseless, and ill
it feels, in a moist, feverish skin,
clutching but a swelling tear, salt-tinged,
from eyes wide shut, that spills
as it lies,
dreaming and waterless.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">sea oath, mountain treaty: till the end of time (海誓山盟)</h4>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-for sheng wei-</h6>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-inspired by habitation, by Margaret Atwood-</h6>
<p class="text-center poem-font"><br>[from the forthcoming pamphlet “chengyu: chinoiserie”]</p>
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the day you left home with a one-way ticket,
was the day i told you that
walking on air felt
the same as treading water.
the day you waded into the ocean,
was the day i clawed around for some vestigial
memory of fire,
and not remembering,
sat in the darkness, turned
Skyward.
many a day you watched as the
sun began and
ended, Genesis upon
Genesis and sleep thick
upon liquid sleep, and far
i take on the colour of
your shadow, or your limpid eyes,
becoming a hymn of your strained
breathing
on the telephone.
at night i dream of you drifting,
my lover gold and rippling sea,
like a child, like my song;
but stirring, i return to the
hum and cry of this brief world, and
bare, and cold.
love is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the whitewashed outhouse where
someone with a nail, scrapes dimly in the paint;
LOVE IS NOT A VICTORY MARCH.
where having fought, and lost,
you make for yourself a fragility,
a soft and quivering precious
it is the
sea and the sea and the
mountain and the mountain
swimming in your pocket,
awaiting creation to begin.
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<h4 class="poem-title poem-font text-center">speak of love in small whispers: first（細語訴情)</h4>
<h6 class="text-center poem-font">-for sheng wei-</h6>
<p class="text-center poem-font"><br>[from the forthcoming pamphlet “chengyu: chinoiserie”]</p>
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if you could give to me the first whisper
that flits in splinters from the lips and
still lies long with
grief upon your cheek-
the one that hesitates and
sighs to start again
to
tell of parted halves and
quartered quarters but slumbering
forgets to rewind and
repeat.
if you could give to me the first pain
and the second that rushes through
the windy lanes in chorus to salute the
heart in its casket,
remembering the name in
the eye of your
aching dream-
perhaps, then,
you will drown in its terrible
sillage,
you my one most
tender,
tongueless theme.
if you could give the first falling to me,
the first falling from a
great height after which you will
find yourself alive at last-
gliding with such irrationality through
feverish spring,
and sweet, and fresh perhaps
your blood will sing and
the moon, will for once,
arch towards the looking-glass.
and now
i will give to you my
end,
my one and final true,
therefore-
song and roar and murmur
(my voice)
to whom refuge bright my soul
belongs
through and through and
through.
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