Nine Arches Press
Adventures in poetry
The Tattoo Collector
Tim Tim Cheng
Available to pre-order, the book will be despatched close to publication date 03/10/2024
ISBN: 978-1-916760-04-2
eISBN: 978-1-916760-05-9
Price: £11.99
Publication date: 3rd October 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
Territories: World
Extent: 72pp
DCF: Poetry Collections
Cover artwork: Au Wah Yan. Instagram: @auwahyan www.auwahyan.net
The Tattoo Collector ranges between Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, exploring the intertwined relationship between the body, ecology and class – where protests, gigs and the tattooed body form a vital line of connection.
Praise for The Tattoo Collector:
“Tim Tim’s urgent and taut poems articulate the structures we are born to, bound by, and spend a life breaking free from. The Tattoo Collector digs under the artifice of skin, language and even country to recover and define the self, before looking outward, asking “Why do I still believe—like a stranger— / that being understood could save us?” In spare and unrelenting language, these haunting poems explore the journey to—and cost of—chasing that understanding. This is a necessary and vital collection, one that articulates the experience of so many of us.” — Marjorie Lotfi
Tim Tim Cheng is a poet from Hong Kong, currently based between Edinburgh and London. Her pamphlet Tapping At Glass (Verve, 2023) explores womanhood, multilingualism, and psychogeography. Her poems are published or anthologised in POETRY, The Rialto, Poetry London, Our Time Is A Garden, and elsewhere. Her latest appearances include the StAnza Festival, Hidden Door festival, Singapore Writers Festival, and BBC Scotland. She is a WrICE fellow (awarded by RMIT University), an Ignite fellow (Scottish Book Trust), a member of Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective 2022/23, and a mentee under the Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship scheme.
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