Elly
Hong
(she/her)
Editor
About Elly
Elly Hong is a poet currently based in East Yorkshire. After graduating from the English Literature and Creative Writing degree at the University of Warwick, she spent a year in Madrid teaching English. As a poet, she strays towards experimental forms, obsessed with the distorting of the familiar and comfortable. She strives to write poems that make the reader sit through a feeling or emotion, no matter how painful. Her poetry often uses the body as a metaphor to express trauma, grief and, finally, hope.
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I am one of the six editors here at Boundby and I get the joy of reading all of your poems! It is so exciting to see the ways our prompts are interpreted and brought into the world.
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I would love for our poets to share their experiences through poetry as a means of human connection. The nature of poetry allows us to reveal vulnerabilities that often may not have the space in other parts of our life.
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My advice would be to lean into the playfulness of poetry. Poetry does not have to be pretentious; it is built for anything and everything. Write about that silly thing you told your friend last week! The hilarity of hiccups! Play with the forms you write with – destroy them, then rebuild them (all higgledy-piggledy!).