[Artist pamphlets] /
Yeung, Heather, H.,author,artist.
Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂) was born in 1984 in Kirkwall. She grew up between Orkney, Hong-Kong, and Bedfordshire. She studied at Durham University with Gareth Reeves, and lived in North Yorkshire and Ankara before returning to Scotland where she now teaches at the University of Dundee. Her writing draws on themes, language and ideas from science (especially Botany), from material practices (such as the making of Porcelain, ancient forms of script and diverse materials as writing surface), from literary traditions (Chinese, Classical Greek and Latin, Norse, Early Modern Italian) and from myth. Translation, intertextuality and musical models also play key roles. In her poetry, subjectivity and voice are transformed or playfully mediated by these influences, and by formal experimentation, placing her work within the field of contemporary innovative poetic practice. The poems are nevertheless highly embodied, passionate, full of sense impressions, longings, regrets, celebrations and injunctions, with a powerful sense of direct appeal and address to a reader, listener or interlocutor. The language, formal or technical at moments, is energised by abbreviation, exclamation, punctuation, variations of speed and the torque of intricate form. Aural effects of chiming and echoing often carry elements of movement and feeling. The form in which the works are created also goes some way to support the mode of reading of the works
Rhoticity: Rhodos (bound poetry) -- Dead Sea Float (Contrapuntism) -- Mu [up] Set (bound poetry and image of weaving by the artist) -- Calques for the Passing of the High Season (artist's book, poem: constructed of papyrus, heather root, lokta paper) -- Rabat, Medina (bound poetry, response to Hölderlin on air mail paper) -- Ex Voto (bound poetry) -- Omphalos, a Short History of Lyric (card work) -- Lines out of Celan, 6-8 May (card work, 'translation' of a poem, printed facing, by Celan) -- Thundersnow (hanging work, response to MacNeice) -- American Studies (folded work, poem) -- Daphne (small bound poem) -- Look: Look (artist's book)
Yeung, Heather H.
Artists' books
Scotland Dundee.