Yang Lian with Brian Holton and Iain Sinclair - World Literature Weekend 2010
Yang Lian begins his latest collection, Lee Valley Poems, with the statement, ‘There is no international, only different locals’. He began writing traditional poetry while it was proscribed during the Cultural Revolution, and later became a founder of...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 19, 20101h 21m
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Show Notes
Yang Lian's poems collapse distances by combining a deep attention to the particular with the allusiveness of classical Chinese poetry, in which a word or image can contain all of tradition: 'With the cry of a wild goose, I am drawn into the Tang Dynasty at the instant of hearing, making Lee valley's waters flow twelve hundred years upstream.' Yang Lian was in conversation with his translator, Brian Holton, and Iain Sinclair, poet, documentary-novelist and East Londoner.
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