19-year-old Eric Yip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem Fricatives, which plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.
Faculty of Economics student, Eric Yip’s National Poetry Competition win, has been featured in the Guardian.
The article says that the 19-year-old economics student from the has become the youngest person to ever win the National Poetry Competition.
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