If you put people next to a stroke
Like this丨
On its right
Like this：人
You become wings
Like this：人丨
If you want to be air
Borne you put the person along
Side an English
Letter: H
Like this：人H
You are high
Up there
In the strokes
Country that is how
I learnt
The language
Stroke by
Stroke
I language
Stroke
By the side
Of Jiangbian
Or Gangbyeon
Language into
Language into
江边
Ouyang Yu is an award-winning poet, novelist and translator. His first novel,
The Eastern Slope Chronicle, won the 2004 South Australian Festival Award for Innovation in Writing. His third novel,
The English Class, won the 2011 NSW Premier's Award, and his 14th collection of poetry,
Terminally Poetic (2020), won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards. Recent works include the novels
All the Rivers Run South (Puncher and Wattmann, 2003) and
The Sun at Eight or Nine (Puncher and Wattmann, 2025), and the collection of short stories
The White Cockatoo Flower (Transit Lounge 2024).
