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The magic circle poetry book cover8/4/2023 Just as Maria Tam mentioned in her speech at the book launch, "I would say this poet is patriotic. She is also an accredited family mediator and has devoted time to philanthropy and community work. Seven of her poems have been included in the supplementary English textbooks for Hong Kong high schools. Julia has published three books of poetry: Much Ado About Nothing, When Victoria Harbour Lost Her Fishing Junks and Echoes Of The Heart. She was co-owner of Galerie La Vong, a pioneer art gallery in contemporary Vietnamese paintings and has published books on the subject: Fine Contemporary Vietnamese Art - Towards The Millennium, Nature's True Son - Seasons Of Le Thanh Son, and Out From The Shadows - Do Quang Em. She has also worked as a Senior Information Officer at the Hong Kong Government Information Services. Tao Ho, renowned architect and artist, and David Lung, former Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She then co-founded Vision, an architectural and design monthly trade magazine together with the late Dr. Having graduated from the University of Hong Kong majoring in Psychology and Sociology, Julia worked for a number of years at Thompson Press first as an editor of their magazines and later the Managing Editor of Asian Architect & Builder. Julia and her husband, son and daughter-in-law (DotDotNews) It is a way of life."īut what exactly is the magic of Julia's poems? Maybe you need to find your own answers in "My Magic Circle". The way Julia sees poetry is that it is all about seeing beauty even in the most ordinary things, "Anything goes in modern poetry. Sharon Evans, Solicitors and Notaries, vividly depicted the magic of Julia's poems, "With obvious joy and mischief, she picks up each 'stone', lovingly and painstakingly cuts, chisels and polishes, bringing out the facets and the sparkles, turns us to the light, revealing all the radiance in a spectrum and multitude of shades and colors."īarbara Meynert, Business and thought leader, compared Julia to the best kind of portrait artist, who has the "amazing ability to convey the essence of a person in a few brush strokes and bring them to life." Chiu Ha Ying, Medical Practitioner and Paediatrician, commented, "Indeed, Julia only writes what touched her soul, and in so doing take us with her on a literary journey filled with her thoughts, visions, dreams, joys, and at times, her sorrows." The book is a perfect record of Julia's colorful life as well as her endless love for poetry and for people around her.ĭr. "My Magic Circle" comprises 54 poems on Julia's friends and family, where her husband wrote the "Foreword", her son and daughter-in-law each a prologue, six very good friends the preface. Julia Wen is holding her latest poetry book "My Magic Circle" at the book Launch. The beloved guest of DotDotNews' latest episode of "Be My Guest", Julia Wen, a Hong Kong poet and also an elegant, classy, lovely lady, launched her fourth book of poetry "My Magic Circle" on Nov.
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