The Kingsbury Tales: A Complete Collection, Ouyang’s 12th book of English poetry, now released by Otherland Publishing in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies only, as part of a special edition of Otherland Literary Journal (No. 15, 2012).
The price is 99.95/copy, postage free worldwide. [only 90 left]
With 610 pages and a full-colour cover, the collection consists of 571 poems, written in Australia, South-east Asia and China, in the mid-2000s, across a range of themes, as the Table of Contents below shows:
Table of Contents [See the facebook images: http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=3377860936119&set=p.3377860936119&type=1&theater¬if_t=like ]
In Lieu of a Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Part One: The Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Kingsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
In a Manner of Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Writing Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Culture Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Sealed Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Part Two: People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Working Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Chinese In Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Part Three: Home on the Road. . . . . . . . . . . . .415
Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Going to China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
The Past in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
‘Tourist’ In China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Living In China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Eating In, Eating Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .542
University Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Back to Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
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