Eddie Tay
BIOGRAPHY
Born and bred in Singapore in the first three decades of his life, Eddie Tay now teaches courses on creative writing and poetry at the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is the author of four volumes of poetry. His first, remnants (2001), consists of renditions of mythic and colonial history of Malaya as well as an homage to the Tang Dynasty poets Li Bai, Du Fu and Li He. His second volume, A Lover’s Soliloquy (2005), extends his interests in Tang Dynasty poetry through renditions of the erotic poetry of Li Shang-yin. It also explores the language of eroticism in the modern city life. His third, The Mental Life of Cities, is a winner of the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize. In it, he experiments with bilingual (English-Chinese) poetry. Dreaming Cities (2016) overlays poetry with street photography.
His works of autoethnography, Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices (2018), Hong Kong as Creative Practice (2023) and Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes (2024) often blend scholarly language with street photography and poetry.
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