Gavin Yuan Gao Gavin Yuan Gao i(16829527 works by)
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1 Morning Poem i "It’s a good day, above average in friendliness. Last night, cradled in tulips,", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 August 2024; (p. 17)
1 Itinerant i "A citizen of a difficult", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 467 2024; (p. 21)
1 Ghost Money Gavin Yuan Gao , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2023 2023; (p. 73)
1 Elegy with The Incredulity of Saint Thomas Gavin Yuan Gao , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 At the Subway Station i "In a world of cunning shades", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , 1 August no. 81 2023;
1 Argument of Incorporeality i "Through the mist-aproned mountain,", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;
1 2 y separately published work icon At the Altar of Touch Gavin Yuan Gao , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 23428662 2022 selected work poetry

'From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.

'These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new voice.' (Publication summary)

1 Covid i "mutters the white man in the whole", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , December no. 24 2021;
1 Covid Gavin Yuan Gao , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Everything, All At Once : Fiction and Poetry from 30 of Australia's Best Writers under 30 2021; (p. 142-145) Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 37)
1 Among the Grass Sea, a Song of Ash i "After the act, we lie abandoned in the arms of", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , June no. 9 2021;
1 Falling i "I was thinking, how, despite years of dogged", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 24-25)
1 Glass Boat, Glass Shore i "Capitulation. Acts of salvage. The maple leaves, on the cusp", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 9 2021;
1 I Hear the Universe Will End in Ice i "On every legible planet,", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 92-93)
1 At the Alter of Touch i "Exiled from his homeland", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 126-131)
1 Abing Speaks to the Moon About the Loss of His Vision i "Cast out into the streets, I curse", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , April no. 7 2020;
1 Lullaby i "Before the divine inventions of dawn", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;
1 Mangroves, or a Treatise on Ecological Inheritance i "Faceless, of one mind, we have come", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 6 no. 2 2019;
1 Letter to Blair from Home i "Brother, when the raven came for me", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;
1 The Resurrection i "Ashes in November. & the fanatic", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 27)
1 Edifice i "For twenty years, I’ve been breaking my jaw on the laws", Gavin Yuan Gao , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , December no. 3 2018;
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