Tim Tim Cheng is a Glasgow-based poet from Hong Kong. Her pamphlet Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023) explores womanhood, multilingualism and psycho-geography. Her full collection, The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), navigates the relationship between the body, ecology and class.
She is a Wrice fellow under a residency programme awarded by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, an Ignite fellow of the Scottish Book Trust, a member of SouthBank Centre’s New Poets Collective 2022-23 and a mentee under the Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship scheme. With the Arts Council England’s support, she is developing a poetry film. She also edits, translates, and writes lyrics.
Below are her three poems.