Yang Lian was born in Switzerland and grew up in Beijing. He went into exile following the Tian’anmen Square massacre in 1989. He has published ten collections of poems, two of prose and many essays in Chinese. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He has lived in London since 1997.
Yang Lian
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)
How a Magical Rambler named Margaret saved me from the funeral of everything and prepared me for the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012