{"id":2108,"date":"2013-08-22T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2013-08-14T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T03:10:58","slug":"poetry-on-fire-xi-chuan-helen-wing-at-m-restaurant-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Poetry on Fire: Xi Chuan & Helen Wing at M Restaurant Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"M<\/a>Xi Chuan & Helen Wing: Poetry on Fire<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sunday,\u00a0August 25, 4 p.m.<\/div>\n
RMB 75, includes one drink<\/div>\n

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Poets Helen Wing and Xi Chuan come together to explore the idea of poetry as fire, from the fire imagery in their poems to their views on how the poetic imagination spreads, like fire, beyond borders. Writing in English (Helen) and Chinese (Xi Chuan), their work suggests that (with apologies to Robert Frost) poetry is not, after all, lost in translation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The event promises to be excellent (I’ve hated Robert Frost for that line long enough, but now it’s time people were aware that David Bellos <\/a>has demonstrated that “nobody has ever been able to find Frost saying anything like it in his works”). And here’s Helen Wing’s bio:<\/p>\n

Helen Wing is a poet and a fiction writer who lives variously in Beijing, Cairo and London. \u00a0Currently she is Writer-in-Residence at Harrow International School, Beijing and works part-time at Renmin Da Xue. At Harrow, she promotes poetry writing with the students and publishes an annual poetry book project, done jointly with Harrow students and the students at Project Hope Vocational School, a migrant children’s charity school based in Wangjing.\u00a0\u00a0Her poetic work, Archangel,<\/em> rose to number four on Amazon’s e-kindle poetry list last year. Other poems have been published in a recent Middle Eastern anthology, Nowhere Near a Damned Rainbow: Unsanctioned Writing of the Middle East. <\/em>Her stories have been published in the Mississippi Prize Review<\/em>, the Southern Cross Review<\/em>, in the Tale of Four Cities<\/em> and Sukoon<\/em>. She is currently working on a novel called I swore I’d set that donkey free before I left Beijing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in London, Helen studied Spanish and French at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Spanish poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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