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'A family saga narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, Chinese Fish offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a ‘yellow peril’ menace and an exotic ‘model minority’.'(Publication summary)
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A novel in verse form.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Pains of Many Difficult Situations. Leone Gabrielle Reviews ‘Chinese Fish’ by Grace Yee
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 39 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel'Some books I’m not sure if I consume them or they consume me. Chinese fish has an amazing hypnotic clarity. Page turning, subterranean transitions keep moving me forward, they flow with no catch of air to breathe, a woman’s way book. Grace Yee’s words swim inside into the canals of my life, they are in me in the contemplation in my whole body. Usually, I have to chew on one poem at a time, but Chinese fish is different. The poems represent notions of home through contrasting sounds and sensations that gobbled me whole.' (Introduction)
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Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Grace Yee and Adam Aitken
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel ; Revenants 2022 selected work poetry -
Melbourne Poet Grace Yee Wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's Richest Literary Award
2024
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2024; -
Grace Yee Chinese Fish
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel'Home and displacement sit side by side in Chinese Fish. Inhabiting multiple perspectives, Grace Yee’s polyphonic verse novel follows a family suspended between two cultures over two decades, from their resettlement in New Zealand from Hong Kong in the 1960s through to grief and loss.' (Introduction)
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Grace Yee Chinese Fish
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel'Home and displacement sit side by side in Chinese Fish. Inhabiting multiple perspectives, Grace Yee’s polyphonic verse novel follows a family suspended between two cultures over two decades, from their resettlement in New Zealand from Hong Kong in the 1960s through to grief and loss.' (Introduction)
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Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Grace Yee and Adam Aitken
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel ; Revenants 2022 selected work poetry -
The Pains of Many Difficult Situations. Leone Gabrielle Reviews ‘Chinese Fish’ by Grace Yee
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 39 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Chinese Fish 2023 single work novel'Some books I’m not sure if I consume them or they consume me. Chinese fish has an amazing hypnotic clarity. Page turning, subterranean transitions keep moving me forward, they flow with no catch of air to breathe, a woman’s way book. Grace Yee’s words swim inside into the canals of my life, they are in me in the contemplation in my whole body. Usually, I have to chew on one poem at a time, but Chinese fish is different. The poems represent notions of home through contrasting sounds and sensations that gobbled me whole.' (Introduction)
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Melbourne Poet Grace Yee Wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's Richest Literary Award
2024
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2024;
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2024 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Victorian Prize for Literature
- 2024 winner New Zealand Book Awards New Zealand Post Book Awards Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
- 2024 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
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cNew Zealand,cPacific Region,
- 1960-1989