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For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne single work poetry "circulate this amongst your friends critical of the local culture"

Author:agent Grace Yee

Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne

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Author's note: This poem includes phrases borrowed and derived from: L. Kong Meng, Cheok Hong Cheong, Louis Ah Mouy (eds.), The Chinese Question in Australia, 1878–79. Melbourne: FF Bailliere, 1879.

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y Westerly vol. 65 no. 2 2020 20864703 2020 periodical issue Abstract 'In preparation for our last issue, I felt that the small gesture of reaching out through a letter to you all might be a fitting acknowledgement of the extreme circumstances in which we found ourselves. Naively, I did not expect that come November we would find ourselves still facing the pandemic as a crisis. We have been lucky here in Perth, to see life return to something resembling ‘normal’. But I’m conscious that elsewhere, both in Australia and overseas, others have not been so fortunate.' (Editorial introduction) 2020
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pg. 14-15
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y Best of Australian Poems 2021 Ellen van Neerven /specialistDatasets/BlackWords (editor), Toby Fitch (editor), Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2021 23672437 2021 anthology poetry Abstract
'Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021, the series will explore how poetic responses to the contemporary moment develop with each passing year.

'The book opens with an introduction by its 2021 editors, award-winning poets Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. They discuss their approach to curating the 'aural events' of this inaugural anthology, which features 100 poems across a considered, also provocative at times, range of poetic voices, approaches and themes.

'The Best of Australian Poems (BoAP) series is published by Australia's national poetry organisation, Australian Poetry, and will feature two different guest editors each year.' (Publication summary)
Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2021
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pg. 86