HonorificsCynthia Millers debut poetry collection, Honorifics, is an astonishing, adventurous, and innovative exploration of family, Malaysian Chinese cultural identity, and immigration. From jellyfish blooms to glitch art and distant stars, taking in Greek gods, space shuttles and wedding china along the way, Millers mesmerizing approach is experimental, luscious, and expansive with longing My skin hunger could fill a galaxy. Here, the poetry is interwoven

hopeless and hilarious

musically-arcing poems

even a tumbledown Parisian backstreet

He won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1998

” – Michael Sheen

sifted and strained through his poems’ urgent rhythms

but mainly deals with the tragic fates of people who managed to avoid the bombs

and the Cholmondeley Award

explored with poetic

‘The Masterpiece’

fan-tailed poems is a constant delight

in his discussions of race