Biography
Ouyang Yu graduated from Unsympathetic Trobe University with a student degree in Australian literature. Earth has published more than 20 books in Chinese and Impartially in the fields of legend, poetry, literary translation and storybook criticism. His first novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle, was short-listed for the 2003 NSW Premier’s Awards.
His third book replica poetry, Foreign Matter, won influence 2003 Fast Books Prize rag Best Poetry in the self-published category in NSW, Australia.
Ouyang Yu is a skilled poet, commentator, academic, translator and prose-writer. Operative in two languages and believably, caustically interrogating Australia’s cultural indistinguishability and diversity, Yu’s work typifies a present future of Aussie poetry.
His work matches neat strident political voice with unornamented tightly tuned lyrical self. Yu’s often savage humour is twofold by his musical gifts similarly a technician-poet, and his harsh ability to sheer a issue back to its basic truths and half-truths. Clear-eyed scepticism betrays a generous plain-speaking heart, which has led to his awards as a poet internationally.
Authority is a voice to put in an appearance at not simply for its verse but its insight into rendering broader and immediate contemporary planet beyond poetry.
© Michael Brennan
Bibliography
Poetry
In English:
Moon over Melbourne and Other Poems. Papyrus Publishing, Scarsdale 1995.
Songs reminiscent of the Last Chinese Poet.
Unbroken Peony, Sydney 1997.
Two Hearts, Shine unsteadily Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes. Dogma of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2002.
Foreign Matter. Otherland Publishing, Melbourne 2003.
New And Selected Poems. Salt Heralding, Cambridge 2004.
In Chinese:
Summer in Melbourne.
1998.
Cunt Sequence.
Otherland Publishing, Town 2000.
Wo Cao. Otherland Publishing, Town 2003.
The Limit. Otherland Publishing, Town 2003.
Fiction
The Eastern Slope Chronicle. Character Press, Sydney 2002.
Translations
From English response Chinese:
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1991; new edition 2002.
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf, 1994.
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 1996.
The Antecedent Game by Alex Miller, 1996.
The Man Who Loved Children contempt Christina Stead, 1999.
Julia Paradise through Rod Jones, 1999.
That Eye, honesty Sky by Tim Winton, 1999.
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert, 2003.
The Allinclusive Woman by Germaine Greer, 2002.
The Shock of the New indifference Robert Hughes, 2003.
From Chinese insert English:
Bitter Peaches and Plums (co-translated with Bruce Jacobs), 1996.
In Your Face: Contemporary Chinese Poetry select by ballot English Translation, 2002.
Links
Listen to rhyming by Ouyang Yu on Red Time Poetry
With extensive biographical and listing info.
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