许鞍华导演大学念文学时主修诗歌，感其解忧纾困，于是便一偿多年心愿，好好拍下香港的诗文风景。

电影主要分为三个部分，第一部分是记录许鞍华导演亲自拜访多位香港诗人好友，如淮远、饮江、邓阿蓝、马若等会友论诗；并借用资料影像及照片，追怀已然离逝的西西和也斯。而整部电影的重点就落在第二部分已移居深圳，性格自由率性的诗人黄灿然及第三部分在台湾忙于讲学兼顾家庭，积极入世的诗人廖伟棠。香港诗或香港诗人宛如边缘的小草，在生活压迫挣扎的同时，展现出顽强的生命力。

許鞍華大學念文學時主修詩歌，感其解憂紓困，於是便一償多年心願，好好拍下我城的詩文風景。電影主要分為三個部份，第一部分是記錄許鞍華導演親自拜訪多位香港詩人好友，如淮遠、飲江、鄧阿藍、馬若等會友論詩；並借用資料影像及照片，追懷已然離逝的西西和也斯。而整部電影的重點就落在第二部份已移居深圳，性格自由率性的詩人黃燦然及第三部份在台灣忙於講學兼顧家庭，積極入世的詩人廖偉棠。香港詩或香港詩人宛如邊緣的小草，在生活壓迫掙扎的同時，展現出頑強的生命力。

詩，是許鞍華的大學主修，也是低潮慰藉，經歷過漫長歲月，總算能如願拍攝。走訪多位香港詩人老友，暢聊文學與香江，其中黃燦然與廖偉棠兩位已離開故鄉，二人景況迥異：前者因高房價搬去深圳，戲稱是「經濟流亡」，低調隱居磨詩；後者舉家搬遷台北，賺錢顧家之餘，積極入世授課、以字鳴放。當我城成了浮城，有人遠走、有人留下，《詩》不只關於詩，還關於生活與抵抗，思考香港的精神出路。

From Boat People (1982) to Our Time Will Come (2017), from family struggles to anti-Japanese history, Venice Career Golden Lion-winning auteur Ann Hui finally films a topic she holds most dear – poetry. Through her personal encounters with some of Hong Kong’s most notable poets, Hui shows the topography of contemporary poetry on and of the city. Two poles of reality, the unrestrained Huang Canran and the cosmopolitan Liu Wai-tong, are juxtaposed to reveal two distinctively different personalities, ideals, and ways of life. Seeing the late Xi Xi recite her own poem about the old Kai Tak Airport is a deeply heart-warming moment.

허안화가 홍콩의 가장 유명한 시인들과 개인적으로 만나면서 촬영한 이 작품은 홍콩이라는 도시와 그 도시의 현대 시의 지형을 보여준다.