Contents -- How Cangjie Invented Chinese Characters -- Pictures of Foreign Objects -- The Hairdresser by the Styx -- Roots -- Thatched House Destroyed by an Autumn Storm -- In a Pavilion by a Stream -- Hero Tree -- China Landscape in the Forecourt of the British Museum -- Paper Scissors Stone -- BN(O) -- From a Distance -- Reading Thom Gunn's Notebooks at the Bancroft Library -- Handwriting -- Watershed -- Obstacles to Dreams -- Lines from 'Another Poem of Insomnia' -- A Letter to Woyzeck -- Ghost Letter -- Rain on a Spring Night -- The Gardener of Qufu -- Morandi -- The Enigma of a Cul-de-sac -- 'Last night wind rose' -- Hammershøi -- Eros at the Gym -- Four Treasures of the Scholar's Studio -- Night Temples -- 'Chinese Poetry' (in translation) -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- About the HKU Poetry Prize.