Agnes Lam.

Agnes Lam	Water Wood Pure Splendour Woman to Woman and Other Poems "Some of Agnes Lam's poems are so moving they will make you cry" Katherine Forestier South China Morning Post "Agnes Lam demonstrates a capacity for compassion and a sensitivity to her physical environment" Leong LiewGeok National University of Singapore

Born and brought up in Hong Kong, Agnes Shun-Ling Lam left home at nineteen to study at the University of Singapore. She continued her studies at the University of Pittsburgh and completed a PhD in linguistics in 1984. She then taught at the National University of Singapore until 1990 and is now an associate professor at the English Centre of the University of Hong Kong. Journals to which she has contributed poems include: Ariel, Commentary, Dimsum, Singa, Westerly, World Englishes and Yuan Yang. Her two recent articles on poetic development in Hong Kong in World Literature Today (1999) and World Englishes (2000) are both comprehensive and insightful. Her first poetry collection, Woman to Woman and Other Poems (1997), has been well received. Positive reviews of her work have appeared in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong and Singapore. Water Wood Pure Splendour is her second collection of poems. < >