The first part of the book discusses the difference between “Reading aloud” and “Recitation”, then proceeds to analyse the elements and approaches of recitation, such as pause, stress, rate of speech, rhythm, tone and intonation. By referencing a number of modern and classical poems, the book examines the key points to note when expressing feelings through recitation.

For many of us, our years in kindergarten must seem rather distant, yet the memories, good and bad, linger on. To help us recall our collective past, the Hong Kong Museum of Education of EdUHK selects over 150 images of historical value and explores their context with simple but informative text.

A Chinese translation of Nicholas Wong Yu-bon’s Crevasse — winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry — the poetry collection has earned accolades in the Greater China Region. Taiwanese poet Chen Li has called it “the most intriguing collection of poems in recent years”.