The Kingsbury Tales
Kingsbury, Victoria is where the poet, Ouyang Yu has been based since he came from the People’s Republic of China in 1991. It was here where he first came into contact and conflict with a very different culture and multi-culture. The Kingsbury Tales explores and depicts characters in a similar way that Geoffrey Chaucer did many hundreds years ago in The Canterbury Tales.
“Ouyang Yu’s Kingsbury Tales are the poems of a traveller, an exile, a displaced poet and a poet of two homes. The tension between these factors drives the poetry of this book... I think this work is a masterpiece – one of the greatest books of ‘Oz poetry’.” John KinsellaOuyang Yu’s poetry, acerbic, funny, wickedly political, is unremittingly concerned with the strangeness, multiplicity and horror of the real. The Kingsbury Tales is a major new work that shows Yu’s brilliance and range. Filled with stories from history, memory and everyday conversations, The Kingsbury Tales is both a profoundly shocking and entertaining work of poetry.” David McCooey
102 pp pb
ISBN 978-1-876040-82-6
$24.95