The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan Japan Mark Oakley explores poetry's power

Mark Oakley explores poetry's power to stir our settled ways of viewing the world and faith

a scheme intended to find "the most interesting writers working in Europe today"

He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish

she threads together images of family and gender

The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan Japan Mark Oakley explores poetry's powerIn his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistically, formally and visually to process the news of a sudden illness and the threat of mortality, set against the larger chaos of his beloved city Hong Kong and our broken planet. These shape shifting poems are persistently sensitive to anxiety, and to beauty, questioning the turbulent climate of our time while celebrating the power of ink of reading and