夏周Zhou Xia：还没天亮的早晨The Morning Without Daybreak

This collection of poems, which includes various styles and periods from Zhou Xia, marks a significant achievement for this Chinese literary talent born after 1995. With raw honesty, these poems lay bare his confusion, anxieties, and insecurities of youth, revealing both sensitivity and fragility. At the same time, the poet’s keen insight and metaphysical reflections emerge with remarkable clarity, conveyed through precocious writing skills and a vivid imagination. This collection provides readers with a unique perspective, inviting them to journey alongside the young poet through a landscape of emotion, reality, and boundless imagination.

Zhou Xia was born in Shanghai in 1995. He graduated from bachelor of multimedia design at University of Queensland in Australia, as well as master of design and technology at Parson School of Design in NYC. His stories have been published in People's Literature, Frontiers, Mountain Flowers, Fiction World and other literary journals, and have been selected for various annual novel anthologies. His poems have appeared in Shi Kan, Flower City, Writer Magazine, Xingxing and other publications. He has authored a collection of novels, The Crown-Wearing White Cockatoo, and a collection of poems, The Morning Without Daybreak.