enraptured.

Review of Tilting Our Plates To Catch The Light

by Qian Leung in IS Magazine, 14 Dec 2007

Cyril Wong's latest collection of poetry tells of a society where you expect to be punished and rejected if you don't conform to the norm. Wong's writing takes you out of your armchair and into his apartment, where he opens up his heart and life for all the world to see. His words go full-throttle and work themselves into a ruckus in "The men we loved, the men we had, the men we wanted" and slows to a tranquilizing effect in "Hate to see you die alone". Elsewhere in this collection, death looms, lurking just around the corner. And yet Wong writes of a love that knows no boundaries and transcends time and death...the kind of love perhaps we all secretly long for. Those with a melancholic temperament will surely be enamoured.