Exposure

This much-anticipated pamphlet from Eric Yip presents a subtle range of emotionally attuned poems against the backdrop of displacement and dissolution. Guided by cinema and the photographic image, these poems are visual, sometimes experimental as they address historical, colonial, and familial relationships through the gauze of remembrance.

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“Again and again in Exposure, a composed poetic intelligence comes up against a coiled sensuality, and the collision of the two is breathtaking. These poems speak with great originality and evocative power to the experience of straddling Britain and Hong Kong. Eric Yip is possessed of a humanely tender eye, drawn to and haunted by the moments of vulnerability that reveal us, stripped back, in our truest contours: ‘Never have I seen a man break // so completely, as if a vast crevasse / had unzipped his life.’ Exposure introduces us to an astonishing new voice, and one I will follow wherever it goes.”

Sarah Howe