Contemporary Asian Australian poets

Resource Information

The work Contemporary Asian Australian poets represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Contemporary Asian Australian poets

Statement of responsibility

edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey & Michelle Cahill

Contributor

• trueBoey, Kim Cheng, 1965-
• Cahill, Michelle
• trueAitken, Adam, 1960-

Editor

• trueAitken, Adam, 1960-
• Cahill, Michelle
• trueBoey, Kim Cheng, 1965-

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Australian literature -- Asian authors
• Australian poetry -- 21st century
• Australian poetry -- Asian authors
• Multiculturalism -- Australia -- Poetry

Genre

• truePoetry

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Puncher and Wattmann poetry

Biography type

contains biographical information

Dewey number

A821.4

Index

no index present

Literary form

poetry

Series statement

Puncher & Wattmann poetry