A clear dawn : new Asian voices from Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Paula, editor.

Wong, Alison, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand literature--21st century.

New Zealand literature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Essays.

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Physical Description:

340 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This landmark collection of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging writers is the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing. A Clear Dawn presents an extraordinary new wave of creative talent. With roots stretching from Indonesia to Japan, from China to the Philippines to the Indian subcontinent, the authors in this anthology range from high school students to retirees, from recent immigrants to writers whose families have lived in New Zealand for generations"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Editors' notes

Akemi Olympus Corporeation is a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products

Ang, Cybonn from The Subversives

Anjali, Manisha the thread is made of flesh

Anthony, ki sync, line & hooker

Bhagwat, Shriya Mumbai monsoon

Boey, Russell Pooh sticks

Chen, Serena Roads

Chetty, Gemishka Two colours

Cho, Joanna The mother of publishing

Living with a boy

It's all I had

Crofskey, Vanessa Mei What's the pH balance of yin + yang?

Dumplings are fake

My people wouldn't know the word for it

Deng, Modi Ben Lomond

De Silva, Saraid from Mitzi

Dissanayake, Romesh mini rugby story

Garcia, Maryana Glass questions

Ghosh, Nod The knot in the cream sari

Ho, Wai A thousand toilet ladies

Ho, Ya-Wen I walk around dead bees

What falls from the skies

How, Bernadette from Fei Lou

Idrus, Feby Monster

Johns, Isabelle The dance

Kan, Gregory Six poems from This Paper Boat

Kasmara, Angelique from Isobar Precinct

Kwang, Melanie Purgatory II

Lam, Sharon from Lonely Asian Woman

Lam, Yan Tan Danny Whenever the day comes

Fish

Review

Lay, Natasha A non-exhaustive list of things I want to say (but I won't) as I feel you trying to remove my bra

Lee, Grace Body/Love

Lee, Wen-Juenn Love letter to my mother: a work in progress

Last July

Leong, Lynette The Chinese Elvis

Tea party

Qing Ming

Liang, Malinna Tara

Lim, Jessica glitch / lights

Liu, Jiaqiao with love

To a future you

We dreamed her

Lu, Rose from

Luo, Hui Ghost records

Mclnnes, Himali Forest fire

Maffitt, Cybella Viet Nam departed

Mourning

But the onions won't grow this year

Maitra, Rupa The two aunties

May, Sarah Water torture

Missouri, Mustaq from Displacement

Mitra, Anuja The ivory house

Mo, Zhi Hong from The Year of the Shanghai Shark

Mok, Tze Ming KL sunrise

From After a long silence

Narayanan, Nithya Hiroshima

Seven things

Ng, Eva Wong Kwong Tao Uncle

Nguyen, Han Mai Migrating tendencies

Lorry heaven

Ooi, Sze Ning from The Sadness of Crows

Piahana-Wong, Kiri Poem for Time Out Bookstore

Give me an ordinary day

Pillay, Sugu Ancestral signs

Ping, A L Breathing

Small town in winter

Grandfather

Pooamorn, Aiwa rice

O-Liang coffee

Thai-Chinese stay-at-home mother

Powles, Nina Mingya Mother tongue

April kowhai

Girl warrior, or: Watching Mulan (1998) in Chinese with English subtitles

Shi, Emma skipping dead insects across the ocean

Contrast

Sidnam, Emma XXX

Simon-Kumar, Naomi Lemon toddy

Singh, Neema The proper way to make tea

Offering

Gujarati khichdi

Sto Domingo, Mikee If it were not for the rain

Tan, Nicole Fission

Tan, Rosabel Paper butterflies

Tan, Tuck Ming Transfiguration

Seven mournings of the Chinese gooseberry

Tay, Janna from Return to places unknown

Tay, Karen Ghost

Teraoka, Yoshiko A boxing match with Jerry, or Death in three parts

Tong, Joy little walnuts

Tse, Chris (In which the author interviews a dead man)

Punctum

I was a self-loathing poet

Vasil, Latika River

Vyas, Rushi Funeral: Durga Puja

I saw you and I learned this, beloved

Diaspora

Weng, Amy After over again

Wong, Belinda A memory of music

Wong, E Wen one world sleeps in an apple

Xu, Sherry from Ever-red

Yamit, Sigred The F word

Unicorn

Sweater

Yee, Grace chinny chin chin

(Beauty peace)

When we elevated a section of the great wall

Yiu, Ting J from Food and liquor for the dead and dying

Zhan, Xiaole Mammalian

Muscle Memory

Zhang, Sherry I cannot write a poem about China

Works previously published.

ISBN:

9781869409470

1869409477

OCLC:

1246350754