Noëlia Ho

Hi, I’m Noëlia and I always insist on the dieresis on my e (like this: ë), as I was born during Christmas time and noël is French for Christmas. I grew up in a trilingual home with a multicultural background of Cantonese (Hong Kong) and French origins. Three years ago, I graduated with an M.A. in English Literature from Université Rennes 2 and have been working in several places since then.

I have moved quite a bit – such that going down 40 floors from a big city in Asia one day to land on the 1st floor the following day in a small European town. However, greener and leafier regions of fresh dewy woods are most reminiscent of my childhood; so, whenever I meet the mountains, I know I’m home.

I like being in the wild and all things nature but I also like the city with its neon lights. I enjoy conversations with friends around a good cup of coffee or tea. I love the blue sky and can look at it on end. I enjoy partaking in out-of-the-blue adventures, especially feeling the wind blow on me when I’m carried in speed. I also like a bit of mystery.

I love poetry because it is a free ground for expression; it is also never wasteful as it has an amazing potential for regeneration – words transposed from one can be understood by another – it makes me realize that my humanity is not wholly unique but rather constructively relatable.

Some of my all-time favourite authors are C.S. Lewis and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I also enjoy the works of T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost and more contemporary poets like Rudy Francisco.

Poetry is like a beacon of light that shines on from one place to another. When you find it – that light – an understanding so unusual to logical explanations or worldliness come alive.

There need not be many words as long as they are poignant; the moment in time that is offered in this free highway of eclectic experience transcends our humanity.