Released July 31st, 2025 // 978-1-917617-16-1 // 146 pages // RRP: £14.99 / $20.99 / €17.99
 
Meier’s After the Parting is a vast, intricately composed collection that maps grief, memory, history, and selfhood across layered geographies and deep time. Moving through poetic sequences that engage with ancient seas, mythic landscapes, familial remnants, and political ghosts, the collection blends lyric intensity with philosophical inquiry. The language is both meditative and hallucinatory, attentive to loss and transformation, drawing from Chinese, European, and diasporic perspectives. Formally varied and richly textured, it constructs a poetics of distance—temporal, spatial, and emotional—while constantly gesturing toward connection.
 
ABOUT Meier:
Meier currently resides in London. She is the Chair of the Twelve Behind International Poetry Festival in China, the Editor-in-Chief of Autumn Water, a poetry journal in Taiwan and the organiser of Ruthin Art Festival in Wales, UK. Meier began publishing her poetry since 18 and has released several collections, including The Weight of a Sponge, You and Me, and Twelve Behind. Her poetry has been translated and published in over a dozen languages, including English, Russian, Japanese, German, Mongolian, Arabic, Persian, Hungarian, and Ukrainian.