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When
SaturdayApril 5
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Where
Watt Space Gallery
20 Auckland St
Newcastle NSW 2300
Tickets
FreeFlower Ash: Bilingual Poetry
Visiting Australia for the first time, Huang Fan 黃梵 is a well-known and prolific poet, writer of fiction, and educator, based in the historic capital of Nanjing. Join Huang with his translator Josh Stenberg as he reads from and discusses his new bilingual book, Flower Ash 花的灰烬, a work of ‘powerful, exquisite poems’ (Phillip Lopate). Huang also surveys the contemporary Chinese poetry scene and its dialogue with world literature, and recounts his wildly successful work as a populariser of poetry composition in China. Bilingual Chinese-English.
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The Speakers
Josh Stenberg
Visiting Australia for the first time, Huang Fan 黃梵 is a well-known and prolific poet, writer of fiction, and educator, based in the historic capital of Nanjing. Join Huang with…
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