Madeleine Slavick / 思樂維
NationalityHong Kong / Aotearoa / USA
Known forwriter, photographer
Notable workHONG香KONG港SONG嗓, Delicate Access 微妙之途,[1] My Favourite Thing 我最寶貴的 and Fifty Stories, Fifty Images
Awards2015 R.A.K Mason Fellow
, 2012 Charles Rooking Carter Awards Finalist, 2003 International Flash Fiction Day Finalist, 1998 Bumbershoot Book Award[2]

Madeleine Slavick is an American author and photographer[3] who spent twenty-four years in Hong Kong and now lives in New Zealand, and whose work is notable for crossing cultural barriers.[4]

Biography

Madeleine Slavick was born in the United States, moved to Hong Kong where she lived from 1988 to 2012, and then to New Zealand, where she is now based.[5] Her writing and photography have been published and exhibited internationally.[6] She also exhibits with her three artist-sisters, Susanne Slavick, Sarah Slavick, and elin O’Hara slavick.[7]

Reviewer Bradley Winterton in the Taipei Times described Slavick's Delicate Access as having "poise and a terse intelligence" with "nothing unbuttoned" and having a "minimalist concentration."[8] Reviewer Tammy Ho in the Asian Review of Books described her poetry as transforming small and "seemingly insignificant things" into "meaning-loaded symbols."[9] Reviewer Michael Ingham described her poem Mong kok Market, about life in Hong Kong, as depicting the "instant slaughter one cannot avoid witnessing at the live meat and fish stalls."[10]

Slavick has stated, "In the projects I undertake, I try to create a sense of community which enriches me, the other participants, and the audience."[4]

Publications, Exhibitions, Interviews

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Accessed June 24, 2014
  2. ^ City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 to the Present, Hong Kong University Press, 2003, Michael Ingham, Xu Xi, Madeleine M. Slavick, see page 318, Accessed June 27, 2014
  3. ^ Rosi, Adele (19 November 2001). "Favourite things". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b Rosie Milne, 31 Aug 2004, The Telegraph, Hong Kong's poets are crossing cultural barriers, Accessed June 26, 2014, "...Madeleine Marie Slavick was a founder of Sixth Finger Press which published bilingually – in English and Chinese. "...I try to create a sense of community which enriches me..."
  5. ^ Slavick, Madeleine. "Tuna, eel". Vice-Versa: a University of Hawai'l ezine. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal – Madeleine Marie Slavick". asiancha.com. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  7. ^ Kavanagh-Hall, Erin (5 May 2021). "Sisters add whakapapa to work". Times Age. Wairarapa. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  8. ^ Bradley Winterton (reviewer), Dec 05, 2004, Taipei Times, 'Drink long opinions full of violets': Poet Madeleine Marie Slavick is a contributor to Taiwan magazines and the author of 'Delicate Access', Accessed June 26, 2014, "...Everything about this book spells poise and a terse intelligence. There is nothing unbuttoned, no flavor of Walt Whitman... we find delicacy ... suggestions of intimacies ... and a minimalist concentration.."
  9. ^ Tammy Ho, 9 November 2004, Asian Review of Books, Delicate Access by Madeleine Marie Slavick, Accessed June 26, 2014, ".. the poet transforms some small and seemingly insignificant things—a dent in the carpet, a yellow mark on the wall—into meaning-loaded symbols..."
  10. ^ 2007, Oxford University Press, Michael Ingham, Hong Kong: A Cultural History, see page 182, Accessed June 26, 2014, "..Slavick depicts the instant slaughter..."
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