Melete

<p><strong>Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length collection explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity.</strong> <em>Melete</em> interweaves dual cultures and heritages through narratives of memory, migration and mysticism across Liverpool, China and Hong Kong.</p><p></p><p>Named after the Boeotian Muse of meditation and contemplation, <em>Melete </em>navigates the boundaries between life and art, personhood and subjectivity, states and places of spiritual transcendence and ecstasies. This expansive collection establishes a powerfully distinctive lyric voice in British poetry.</p>