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  • Author:agent Yu Ouyang http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ouyang-yu
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Far and Near
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All Publication Details

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon LiNQ Literature in North Queensland vol. 26 no. 2 October 1999 Z625612 1999 periodical issue 1999 pg. 40
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    y separately published work icon The Literary Review vol. 45 no. 1 Fall John Kinsella (editor), 2001 Z931422 2001 periodical issue Alternative Spaces : Contemporary Australian Literature 2001 pg. 107
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    y separately published work icon Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes Yu Ouyang , Broadway : Wild Peony , 2002 Z975840 2002 selected work poetry Broadway : Wild Peony , 2002 pg. 70
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    y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems Yu Ouyang , Applecross : Salt Publishing , 2004 Z1128226 2004 selected work poetry This book includes selections of previously published and unpublished poems, which cover a decade from the end of the 20th century through the first part of the 21st century. The selected poems are arranged in 5 sections: Uncollected, from Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, from Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-colored Eyes, from Foreign Matter and from Terminally Poetic, unpublished at the time of this printing. Applecross : Salt Publishing , 2004 pg. 96
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    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poems 2004 Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2004 Z1159779 2004 anthology poetry Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2004 pg. 201
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    y separately published work icon Borderlands Cultural Ambivalence, Cultural Politics: National Mythologies of Australia, Asia and the Past vol. 3 no. 3 2004 Z1275077 2004 periodical issue 2004
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    y separately published work icon True Blue? : On Being Australian Peter Goldsworthy (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1455140 2008 anthology single work prose extract poetry short story (taught in 3 units)

    'What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008
    pg. 49
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    y separately published work icon Terminally Poetic Yu Ouyang , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2020 19594000 2020 selected work poetry '‘Terminally Poetic is charged with desperation. It’s written from an opium den of wasted Australian stereotypes in the Grub Street of the mind. Ouyang Yu puts the alien back in Australian. No one is spared in this exposé of Australian letters, certainly neither the poet nor his reader. A book to climb up in love with.’ - Steve Brock
    '‘Terminally Poetic is Ouyang Yu working through the colonial alphabet and undoing it and himself at various turns and forks in the road. This is the individuated poet - one of the most committed poets who undoes poetry as an act of principle, who asks questions of 'who's to blame' in startling and nuanced ways - counting down (or up) through the letters so we can make new words from the poems. He confronts reductionism by disowning it while experiencing it, he confronts expectations of style and mode of writing it by writing it and then laughing at himself and the expectations of his readers. Excoriating and yet strangely vulnerable, the poet takes on the poet and poetry's failure to be noticed, to matter, to be what it wants to be.’ - John Kinsella' (Publication summary)
    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2020
    pg. 48
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