“The Air is like a Butterfly” is Holly Lee’s second book of poetry, a compilation of 49 poems written between 2018 to 2020.



Holly lives and works in Toronto since 1997; the year she left Hong Kong - her city of birth, and the same year the city was returned to China, ending its 155 years of British colonial history. Primarily noted as a photo-based artist, her first poetry book Nine Years 九年 (poems 2010-2018) was published in 2020.



“The Air is like a Butterfly” consists of 108 pages, 6x9 inch (15x22 cm), is available in two versions: POD (print-on-demand) book in perfect binding; and ebook for desktop, iPad or Kindle platform.



The book is also embellished with Lee Ka-Sing's visuals: "wood series" - a suite of twenty-one black and white photographs. “The Air is like a Butterfly” is published by OCEAN POUNDS in July 2021.