Introduction

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine

《中國學生周報》的作者出版頻率

Hong Kong is a city of poetry with a number of influential poetry magazines. ”Since the 1970s, more than 80 poetry magazines have appeared in this city.”(Prof. CHEN Pangeng , 2020)

However, recent years have witnessed a significant decline in the number of poetry magazines. As shown from the table, many time-honored magazines have been discontinued.

Table. Poetry magazines’ status by 2020[1] 

magazine

start_date

period

status

秋螢詩刊

1969

1969-1988,2003-2010

discontinued

詩風

1972

1972-1984

discontinued

新穗詩刊

1981

1981-1986

discontinued

當代詩壇

1987

1987-

in publication

詩雙月刊

1989

1989-1994,1997-1998

discontinued

呼吸詩刊

1996

1996-2001

discontinued

詩世界

1995

1995-

in publication

我們詩刊

1996

1996-2000

discontinued

新詩人

1998

1998-2000

discontinued

香港詩刊

2000

2000-2002

discontinued

詩潮

2001

2001-2003

discontinued

圓桌詩刊

2002

2002-

in publication

聲韻詩刊

2011

2011-

in publication

橄欖葉詩報

2011

2011-

in publication

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is one of the exceptions. This magazine started publication in 2011 and developed quickly when many time-honored poetry magazines had to stop publication. Based on the text data from Hong Kong Literature Database and author data from Hong Kong Writers and Artists Biographical Database, we could conduct text analysis and visualization on this magazine.

Table. Poetry magazine resources from Hong Kong Literature Database (HKLIT)

magazine

period

years

type

 issues

articles

authors

聲韻詩刊

2011-2021

11

双月刊

60

3621

1349

詩風

1972-1984

13

月刊

116

2465

724

香港散文詩

2005-2017

13

季刊

43

2293

791

詩雙月刊

1989-1994,1997-1998

8

月刊

43

2208

1230

香港詩詞

2009-2012

4

年刊

6

2154

1070

詩網絡

2002-2006

5

双月刊

30

1426

808

呼吸詩刊

1996-2001

6

年刊

7

470

261

我們詩刊

1996-2000

5

半年刊

9

240

109

Our analysis could be divided into 3 parts:

①On the magazine level, we used topic model to generate yearly topics and terms of this magazine;

②On the author level, we generated topics of each author and calculated the author similarity;

③On the author level, we also analyzed some poetry images, including colors and seasons.


[1] CHEN, Pangeng. 盼耕:香港近五十年詩社詩刊生命力淺議. 國際漢詩研究專刊, 31 Mar. 2020, https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1662556121779413118.