Chinese Fish
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| Author | Grace Yee |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | Giramondo Publishing |
Publication date | June 2023 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 144 pp. |
| Awards | 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Literature, winner |
| ISBN | 9781922725448 |
Chinese Fish is a collection of poems by Australian poet Grace Yee, published by Giramondo Publishing in 2023.[1]
The collection contains 7 poems, along with sections titled "translation", "Notes" and "Acknowledgments".[2]
The collection won the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Poetry, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Literature.[3]
The collection tells an intergenerational story of the racism encountered by a migrant Chinese family in New Zealand from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The poems integrate hybrid Cantonese-Taishanese into English phrases.
Contents
- "Happy Valley"
- "Paradise"
- "Good Luck and Plenty"
- "Chinese Fish"
- "English Mittens"
- "For the Good Husband"
- "Sunday Gardening"