Canadian poet Akin Jeje lives in Hong Kong. His first full-length poetry collection, Smoked Pearl: Poems of Hong Kong and Beyond was long-listed for the 2009 International Proverse Prize, and published by Proverse Hong Kong in 2010. Jeje’s most recent publications, “Reach” and “Wasted”, were in the special #WRITERSRESIST edition of Hong Kong’s Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine in 2017. He is currently at work on another full-length poetry collection tentatively entitled Never Land. Jeje is a regular performer at Hong Kong’s Poetry Outloud, one of the previous MCs of Peel Street Poetry, and now one of its three directors.
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