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Adam Aitken
Asian-Australian Diasporic Poets: A Commentary
“This essay provides a survey of the poetry of some Asian Australian poets, and does not attempt to be definitive. Diasporic poetics raise more questions than they answer and are just as much about dis-placement as about place, just as much about a ‘poetics of uncertainty’ as about certainties of style/nation/identity.”
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Tagged Adam Aitken, Andy Quan, Bella Li, Desh Balasubramaniam, Ee Tiang Hong, Eileen Chong, Ivy Alvarez, James Stuart, Kim Cheng Boey, Louis Ho, Merlinda Bobis, Michelle Cahill, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng, Nora Krouk, Ouyang Yu, Shen, Sudesh Mishra, Yasmine Gooneratne
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The Coffee Bean Prophecies
1 In Laos, when people see Good Luck, they’ll touch you on the arm and ask your name and where you are going. They’ll want to be there when the snake crosses the road, when the monk anoints their wrists …
Adam Aitken Reviews John Mateer
Southern Barbarians (Giramondo Publishing, 2011)
“Southern Barbarians is a book that explores both the colonised and the colonizing impulse through the inflections of the Portuguese epic Os Lusíadas by Camões, the explorer/soldier/poet-traveller and heroic poet of the Portuguese. The book ranges from Lisbon to Macao, taking in Indonesia, Malaysia, Warrnambool, and Japan on the way. This is a world where African businessmen in Macao see ‘African wildlife’ in a travel agent’s window, in an image of savannah they are no closer to than the Macanese.”
