AustLit

'Questions of identity and self-definition hold a special place in Lachlan Brown’s artistic imagination. His poetry engages with the elusive concept of belonging in a divided and contested world, within and despite social norms and hierarchies. Brown’s poetic impulse is to probe the tensions surrounding the need to self-define and the social prescriptions which label those who challenge normative categories.' (Introduction)

'Released under Vagabond Press's Asia Pacific Poetry Series, Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh Trâm is a much-needed update on the work of these three Vietnamese voices in Australian poetry, bookended by overviews from the co-editors, Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and poet/writer Nhã Thuyên. Thuyên's words breathe, creatures of elsewhere was also released by Vagabond, in 2016. Quốc is the author of, among much else, Vietnamese Literature in Australia: Politics and Poetics of Diaspora (in Vietnamese, 2013), and without question politics, poetry and diaspora are the themes which together resonate throughout the poems in this collection.' (Introduction)