Jennifer Lee Tsai’s first full-length collection explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity. _Melete_ interweaves dual cultures and heritages through narratives of memory, migration and mysticism across Liverpool, China and Hong Kong.

The mythic structure of the book relates to the three original Boeotian Muses – Melete, Mneme and Aoede. Named after the Muse of meditation and contemplation, _Melete_ navigates the boundaries between life and art, personhood and subjectivity, states and places of spiritual transcendence and ecstasies. This expansive collection establishes a powerfully distinctive lyric voice in British poetry.

Jennifer Lee Tsai is a poet, writer and artist. Born in Bebington on the Wirral, she grew up in Liverpool. She has published two pamphlets, _Kismet_ (ignitionpress, 2019) and _La Mysterique_ (Guillemot Press, 2022), with her first book-length collection, _Melete_, published by Bloodaxe in 2026. A fellow of The Complete Works and a Ledbury Poetry Critic, she has received a Northern Writers Award for Poetry and is a winner of the Rebecca Swift Foundation's Women Poets' Prize. She has worked as a teacher of English to students in universities and colleges as well as within community settings. She is the recipient of an AHRC doctoral scholarship in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and an Artist in Residence at the Bluecoat's studios through the Wittenham Bursary. Her poetry, essays and reviews have been published in publications including _The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Telegraph, The TLS_ and _The White Review_ as well as on BBC Radio 4.