Eric Yip
Eric Yip is a poet from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Guardian, Oxford Poetry, and The Poetry Review. His debut pamphlet is Exposure (ignitionpress, 2024).
Exposure
ignitionpress, April 2024, 34pp
“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
Poems
‘Somnambulist’, ‘Conservatoire’, ‘Birthday’, The Poetry Review
‘Ardently Love’, Oxford Poetry
‘Tenor’, fourteen poems
[Movement is the replacement of one], [With ease the brick houses shift as sight], The London Magazine
‘The Mills’, The Adroit Journal
‘Ma Tau Wai Road’, Magma
‘Broadway Cinematheque’, The Poetry Review
‘裂 / Tear’, Wildness
‘Fricatives’, The Poetry Review
Reprints in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025, The Forward Book of Poetry 2024, Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, Best New Poets 2022
Prose
Articles and essays in Poets & Writers, Poetry School, State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation
Reviews in Poetry London, Magma
Appearances
Interviews with Forward Arts Foundation, AFP, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4
Past events at Poetry at Aldeburgh, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Poetry Café, Queer East Festival, Ledbury Poetry House, Leeds Playhouse, Asymmetry Art Foundation, Verve Poetry Festival, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Common Press, and elsewhere