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Zhongguo sui yue : shi xuan ji xin zuo
Alternative title: 中國歲月 : 詩選及新作
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 China Years : Selected and New Poems
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Language: English , Chinese

Works about this Work

Review Short : Kit Kelen’s China Years: New and Selected Poems Siobhan Hodge , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;

— Review of China Years : Selected and New Poems Christopher Kelen , 2011 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Kit Kelen’s China Years: New and Selected Poems Siobhan Hodge , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;

— Review of China Years : Selected and New Poems Christopher Kelen , 2011 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

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