Paper Scissors Stone

Contents

CoNTeNTS How Cangjie Invented Chinese Characters 11 Pictures of Foreign objects 13 The Hairdresser by the Styx 15 Roots 16 Thatched House Destroyed by an Autumn Storm 17 In a Pavilion by a Stream 19 Hero Tree 20 China Landscape in the Forecourt of the British Museum 21 Paper Scissors Stone 23 BN(o) 26 From a Distance 28 Reading Thom Gunn’s Notebooks at the Bancroft Library 30 Handwriting 34 Watershed 36 obstacles to Dreams 37 Lines from ‘Another Poem of Insomnia’ 38 A Letter to Woyzeck 39 Ghost Letter 41 Rain on a Spring Night 43 The Gardener of Qufu 44 Morandi 46 The enigma of a Cul-de-sac 47 ‘Last night wind rose’ 48 Hammershøi 49 eros at the Gym 50 Four Treasures of the Scholar’s Studio 51 Night Temples 55 ‘Chinese Poetry’ (in translation) 57 Notes 59 Acknowledgements 63 About the HKU Poetry Prize 67 ...