LAU YEE-CHING

Lau Yee-ching, who goes by Yam Gon, was born in December 1949 in Hong Kong. He began writing new poetry in the 1970s. He has received the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature. In 1987, he co-founded the poetry magazine One-Ninth with friends and was involved in editing the first few issues. Lau has been appointed to the juries of several poetry awards in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, the Qui Ying Poetry Award and the Lee Sing-wah Poetry Award. His book of poems And So You Look at the Festive Lights along the Street (1997) won the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature. In 2010 he published a more complete edition of the book, And So, Carrying Stones, You Look at the Festive Lights along the Street, which is a collection of more than 130 poems.