Second Drifting (erdu piaoliu) is the fourth book of Chinese poetry by 
Ouyang Yu, currently based in China, which collects more than 100 poems 
originally written by Ouyang that cover a period of thirty years from the 
1970s to the early 21st century, many published as well as unpublished. They 
were written in places as diverse as Huangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Kingsbury, 
West Heidelberg, Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Some of the poems are 
lyrical, some are prose-poems and others are sequences, all packed with 
emotion with direct references to the contemporary life, Chinese or 
Australian. Over 300 pages with a cover designed by Shi Xiaojun featuring 
photographs taken by Ouyang in Holland, England and Lisbon, the book has 
just been published by Otherland Publishing in Beijing and are now available 
through the internet.

Even if you can't read Chinese because of your monolinguality (no insult 
intended), you can purchase a copy as a collector's item.

Price: A$34.95 plus postage/handling (individuals) and A$44.95 plus 
postage/handling (institutions)

Western Erotic Love Poetry in Chinese Translation, a Special Issue of 
Otherland (No. 10, 2005)

Banned for 17 years since 1988, this is an anthology that collects some 200 
poems by poets from USA, UK, Canada, Australia and the Chinese diaspora that 
Ouyang Yu translated and edited, with the help of Zhong Dao, editor of Poem 
Reference, an underground poetry journal based in Beijing. The anthology 
went back 17 years to 1988 when Ouyang Yu was a postgraduate student in 
English and Australian literature. It was first accepted by Anhui Literature 
and Arts Publishing House in 1989 but was subsequently censored and rejected 
by the same publisher on account of the June 4th Incident, 1989. After many 
rejections by many publishers in China and after many of the poets died 
since their work was translated and included, Otherland Publishing has 
eventually brought the book out in a world where erotic love is being widely 
practised but not allowed into print.

Poets in the anthology include John Updike, Anne Sexton, A. D. Hope, Gwen 
Harwood, Gig Ryan and many others. If you want to know who else has been 
included, send me a query email.


Professor Ouyang Yu
English Department, Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
Ph: 001186 27 6875 3269 (office)
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