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Author: Ouyang Yu

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The least you can do

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 23 July 2018
    2 Comments

    You are saying these people are not good enough because they come from elsewhere. You are saying their English is too creative. You are saying their growing numbers are a constant threat. You are saying they are never as good as you, genetically even. You are saying no.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Invading Australia

    • Saba Hakim, Ray Carmichael and Ouyang Yu
    • 02 April 2013
    1 Comment

    We have wished to invade Australia like you'd never imagined from where we are based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries reduced by hegemony to hell. We ruled the waves till we were in sight of an island that looked from afar like a welcome entity.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Four Chinese poems

    • Yang Xie and Hu Xian, translated Ouyang Yu
    • 27 November 2012
    2 Comments

    Today I saw a rich man. I knew not what his brains and intestines were like ... Today I saw an old man, one hand holding an old bag, and the other, pressed on his upper abdomen. He looked pale, his head covered in sweat, and the corner of his mouth, it kept quivering.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Memo to corporate pigs

    • Ouyang Yu and Barry Gittins
    • 05 October 2010
    4 Comments

    No good deed goes unplagiarised; no noteworthy scheme leaves the department unharvested. Lack the intellectual capital to spend on an informed decision? Set multiple minions to work then cherry pick the outcomes, signing off with your own trotter.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Enemy volcanoes

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 25 May 2010

    Some volcanoes are dead bigtime .. Be careful: Don't go near them .. They spit

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Ouyang Yu

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 17 May 2007

    Ouyang Yu is a poet and novelist currently based in China, whose latest publication of poetry is Listening To (Vagabond Press).

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Peace of Mind

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 18 September 2006

    Finding it hard to write something I like / I tend to revise it a thousand times before I gain peace of mind

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Random thoughts

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 29 April 2006

    Yang Weizhen Random thoughts, Yang Ji Mountains deep and shallow, Zhang Zhihe Fishing song, Li Yu Moon like a hook, translated by Ouyang Yu

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Revolutions | The Kingsbury Tales

    • Danny Fahey & Ouyang Yu
    • 20 April 2006

    Poems by Danny Fahey & Ouyang Yu.

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