David McKirdy grew up in Hong Kong in the 1960s and he came to poetry late in life after completing a degree in the arts at HK Open University in 1997. His work has been published in numerous anthologies and he has two books of poetry, Accidental Occidental and Ancestral Worship. He has represented Hong Kong and has read his work in Cairo, Singapore, Rhode Island, Monterey, Shanghai, Hanoi and Manila and will be one of the participants in the Medellin International Festival of Poetry in Colombia 2014. He repairs classic cars for a living. [Poetry]