Contemporary Asian Australian Poets

Author: Adam Aitken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922186317
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
This ground-breaking anthology collects poems written by Australian poets who are migrants, their children, and refugees of Asian heritage, spanning work that covers over three decades of writing. Inclusive of hitherto marginalised voices, these poems explore the hyphenated and variegated ways of being Asian Australian, and demonstrate how the different origins and traditions transplanted from Asia have generated new and different ways of being Australian. This anthology highlights the complexity of Asian Australian interactions between cultures and languages, and is a landmark in a rich, diversely-textured and evolving story. Timely and proactive this anthology fills existing cultural gaps in poetic expressions of home, travel, diaspora, identity, myth, empire and language.

Diasporic Poetics

Author: Timothy Yu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198867654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.

Contemporary Australian Poetry

Author: Martin Langford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922186935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An anthology of Australian poetry between the years 1990 and 2015

The Changing World of Contemporary South Asian Poetry in English

Author: Mitali P. Wong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498574084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This collection uses a transnational approach to study contemporary English-language poetry composed by poets of South Asian origin. The poetry contains themes, motifs, and critiques of social changes, and the contributors seek to encapsulate the continually changing environments that these contemporary poets write about. The contributors show that English-language poetry in South Asia is hybridized with imagery and figurative language adapted from the vernacular languages of South Asia. The chapters examine women’s issues, concerns of marginalized groups—such as the Dalit community and the people of Northeastern India—, social changes in Sri Lanka, the changing society of Pakistan, and the formation of the identity in the several nation states that resulted from the British colony of India.

Vociferate

Author: Emily Sun
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 176099023X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
The poems in Emily Sun's debut poetry collection Vociferate were inspired by diasporic-Asian feminist writers. Like these writers, Emily resists both Eurocentric and patriarchal tropes as she explores the complexities of national and transnational identities, reflects upon the concept of belonging, and questions what it means to be Asian-Australian.

Self Translation

Author: Ouyang Yu
Publisher: Transit Lounge
ISBN: 1921924683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Poems first written in Chinese but now presented in both Chinese and English, Self Translation is arguably Ouyang Yu’s most lyrical and resonant collection of poetry to date. The verse inhabits China and Australia in spirit and the natural world in both nations. Mellow and beautiful, yet questioning of the author’s own experience of moving between cultures, these are poems that provide a perfect companion to Ouyang’s award-winning novel The English Class. They feel at once Chinese and Australian in the intuitive and often indefinable elements that provide a path between two places.

The Forms of Youth

Author: Stephen Burt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231141424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Moon Over Melbourne

Author: Yu Ouyang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description

Burning Rice

Author: Eileen Chong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987176523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Poems of such simplicity directness and sincerity, you feel past lives and future possibilities fully alive in them, cherished by the warmth of the poets regard. Ivor Indyk The poems in BURNING RICE pull you in with their sumptuous images and seductive memories. Eileen Chongs poetry is a gift of the interconnection of past and present, the personal and the communal. She has an astute ability to let objects and events assume emblematic implication, and she can incite the imagination through her remarkable ability to find the ore seams in everyday experience. - Judith Beveridge The colours, scents, tastes and textures of the variousness of generations are woven seamlessly into these poems. Eileen Chong creates compelling narratives that offer insights into love and loss, tradition and compassion. Her true gift is the ability to define, through memory and imagination, an almost tactile sense of place. A stunning first collection. -Anthony Lawrence

La Mama Poetica

Author: La Mama Theatre
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A compilation of poems which have been performed at poetry readings at the Melbourne La Mama theatre.