A Struggle for Power Between Images and Words: Interview with Sarah Howe
By Sophia Jones-Williams
Portrait of Sarah Howe. Courtesy Hayley Madden.
The paradigms of poetry and the visual arts rarely collide, though TS Eliot Prize winner Sarah Howe successfully bridges the gap with a new series of poems, Six Windows, which she presented at the Asia Art Archive (AAA) on November 9. Howe’s first ripples in literary spheres were made with Loop of Jade (2015), a self-conscious and reflective book that explored both her mother’s life as well as her own. Born in Hong Kong in the 1980s, Howe moved with her family to England when she was seven years old, partly due to the intensifying political anxiety in Hong Kong. Years later, she would study English literature and complete her PhD, with a focus on the relationship between visual art and its poetic representations.
