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  • Asia Literary Review — Let’s have some flora in the poems

    There are some wonderful poems in the Winter 2010 issue of Asia Literary Review (this is their “China’ issue) and it is interesting to see that many of them feature flora imagery.1  Landscape Above Zero | Bei Dao | “It was…

  • Poetry OutLoud poets and Cha contributors on the BBC World Service

    BBC World Service – The Strand Poets Zheng Danyi and Martin Alexander talk about “New Generation Poetry” and read Danyi’s poem “Dedication”, written in 1990. Also, a love poem from the Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to his wife (“I Give Everything to You”) is…

  • Meet Shirley Lee

    ‘Potent references’ was the comment guest editor Royston Tester gave to Shirley Lee’s poem “Letter to a Prominent Korean Man And to You”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Royston was right: potent references indeed.…