Given by Terri Ann Quan Sing, at Liminal magazine
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Ouyang Yu came to Australia in mid-April 1991 and has since published 139 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese languages, including his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collection of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), and his poetry book, Terminally Poetic (2020), that won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, his book website: www.huangzhouren.com
‘Lifting’, a poem read
Many thanks and much appreciated
I won a two-year Fellowship from the Australia Council for writing a documentary novel, with great appreciation and heart-felt thanks, now working at full steam on it on a daily basis.
‘Australia’ (a poem from my collection, ‘Terminally Poetic’)
A friend of mine sent me a picture of a poem she was reading, from my Terminally Poetic and to mark that occasion I included the photo here.
I translated Zhang Meng and Kinsella translated me