This volume of poetry bridges the spaces beween cultures. Detailed with observation and personal experience, honest and clear in their vision, these poems reflect upon the poet's Asian and Western identities. Ancient legends counterpoint modern reality; beauty and peace are offset by the rawness of death and dying. Erudite and referential in both cultures, these poems are also intelligent and accessible.

"Red Lacquered Chopsticks is a collection that engages the mind and heart. These are poems of sensuous words and sharp images that beg to be read and re-read. This is beautifully crafted poetry ... an enriching experience for the reader." - David Halton

"Full of verbal and visual felicities, this is an astonishing first collection abounding with a gallery of familial and fabular figures. A virtuoso debut!" - Seymore Mayne

"These poems cross time and cultures and bear wintess to the diverse experiences of those who now inhabit this Turtle Island called Canada. With maturity and a vision that draws from the tradition of storytelling, the poet writes vividly of a world that becomes ours in the reading." - Armand Garnet Ruffo

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Betty Warrington-Kearsley was born in England but grew up with her Chinese family in a kampong in Singapore. She also writes Haiku and short stories, and is working on a memoir. She won first prize in ARC's 2004 Diana Brebner Poetry Award, was co-winner in the 2004 Ray Burrell poetry contest, and was short-listed for the 2004 Shaunt Basmanjian Poetry Award. She has published in several magazines and anthologies and also writes under her pen name, Pe-Lien.

“ull of verbal and visual felicities, this is an astonishing first collection abounding with a gallery of familial and fabular figures. A virtuoso debut!??ed Lacquered Chopsticks is a collection that engages the mind and heart. These are poems of sensuous words and sharp images that beg to be read and re-read. This is beautifully crafted poetry ... an enriching experience for the reader.??David Halton?hese poems cross time and cultures and bear witness to the diverse experiences of those who now inhabit this Turtle Island called Canada. With maturity and a vision that draws from a tradition of storytelling, the poet writes vividly of a world that becomes ours in the reading.?04