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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Circular Breathing
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  • Dedication: For Samuel Wagon Watson.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Heat Cartoon Ducks no. 14 (New Series) 2007 Z1432372 2007 periodical issue 2007 pg. 75
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poems 2008 Peter Rose (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 Z1535132 2008 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 pg. 110
    Note: Does not have dedication.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2008 David Brooks (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1537239 2008 anthology poetry (taught in 3 units)

    'His selection of 40 poems from Australia's print and online journals captures a sense of poetry as passion, as lived experience, and momentary distillations into action.' (Source: Publisher's website)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008     pg. 104-105
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Surface to Air Jaya Savige , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1802846 2011 selected work poetry 'Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006 to 2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut Latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti.

    'While many of the poems in latecomers, concerned the history and landscape of Bribie Island, where Savige grew up, this collection is about leaving the island and as such, it signals a departure from Latecomers.

    'The title, Surface to Air, conveys the central themes of the collection, which include: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural, to the present; the struggle for literal inspiration, (a title of one of the poems) in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance and loss; the ubiquity of violence, and the relationship between actual violence and the simulacrum of violence and war (connoted by the phrase "surface-to-air missile"); among others. It is also an invitation to be mindful of the surface effects of language.' (From the publisher's website.)         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011     pg. 24-25
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Michelle Cahill (editor), Kim Cheng Boey (editor), Adam Aitken (editor), Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2013 6169988 2013 anthology poetry (taught in 3 units)

    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. [from Trove]

         Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2013     pg. 220-221
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Contemporary Asian Australian Poets : Student Book Emily Bosco , Anthony Bosco , Luke Bartolo , Gladesville : Into English , 2021 24871383 2021 single work criticism

'Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of six Asian Australian poets from the 2013 poetry collection Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill, along with several additional texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

'Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems:

  • ‘This is Where it Begins’ by Merlinda Bobis

  • ‘Home’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

  • ‘New Accents’ by Ouyang Yu

  • ‘Mother’ by Vuong Pham

  • ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige

  • ‘Translucent Jade’ by Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü)'

 (Publication summary)
y separately published work icon Contemporary Asian Australian Poets : Student Book Emily Bosco , Anthony Bosco , Luke Bartolo , Gladesville : Into English , 2021 24871383 2021 single work criticism

'Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of six Asian Australian poets from the 2013 poetry collection Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill, along with several additional texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

'Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems:

  • ‘This is Where it Begins’ by Merlinda Bobis

  • ‘Home’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

  • ‘New Accents’ by Ouyang Yu

  • ‘Mother’ by Vuong Pham

  • ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige

  • ‘Translucent Jade’ by Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü)'

 (Publication summary)
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