Madeleine Marie Slavick

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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
Awards2022 Parkin Prize Finalist / 2015 R.A.K Mason Fellow
/ 2013 International Flash Fiction Day Competition Finalist / 2012 Charles Rooking Carter Awards Finalist / 1998 Bumbershoot Book Award [2]

Madeleine Slavick is an author and photographer [3] whose work is notable for crossing cultural barriers. [4] Her writing and photography have been published and exhibited internationally. [5]

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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. [6]

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." [7] Reviewer Tammy Ho in the Asian Review of Books described her poetry as transforming small and "seemingly insignificant things" into "meaning-loaded symbols." [8] 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." [9]

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]

She also exhibits with her three artist-sisters, Susanne Slavick, Sarah Slavick, and elin O’Hara slavick. [10]

Publications, Exhibitions, Interviews, Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. 1 2 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. "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal – Madeleine Marie Slavick". asiancha.com. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  6. Slavick, Madeleine. "Tuna, eel". Vice-Versa: a University of Hawai'l ezine. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  7. 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.."
  8. 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..."
  9. 2007, Oxford University Press, Michael Ingham, Hong Kong: A Cultural History, see page 182, Accessed June 26, 2014, "..Slavick depicts the instant slaughter..."
  10. Kavanagh-Hall, Erin (5 May 2021). "Sisters add whakapapa to work". Times Age. Wairarapa. Retrieved 20 August 2021.