Inspired by the commonplace book and medieval dream-visions, Jay Gao's second collection unfolds through leaf-like fragments and long, branching lines that stretch across the page, creating a serial, visionary rewiring between nature and language.
Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
