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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Chinese Fish
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'A family saga narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, Chinese Fish offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a ‘yellow peril’ menace and an exotic ‘model minority’.'(Publication summary)

Notes

  • A novel in verse form.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2023 .
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      Extent: 144p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2023
      ISBN: 9781922725448

Works about this Work

The Pains of Many Difficult Situations. Leone Gabrielle Reviews ‘Chinese Fish’ by Grace Yee Leone Gabrielle , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 39 no. 1 2024;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'Some books I’m not sure if I consume them or they consume me. Chinese fish has an amazing hypnotic clarity. Page turning, subterranean transitions keep moving me forward, they flow with no catch of air to breathe, a woman’s way book. Grace Yee’s words swim inside into the canals of my life, they are in me in the contemplation in my whole body. Usually, I have to chew on one poem at a time, but Chinese fish is different. The poems represent notions of home through contrasting sounds and sensations that gobbled me whole.' (Introduction)

Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Grace Yee and Adam Aitken Jennifer Mackenzie , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel ; Revenants Adam Aitken , 2022 selected work poetry
Melbourne Poet Grace Yee Wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's Richest Literary Award Nicola Heath , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2024;
Book Review : Chinese Fish, Grace Yee Elizabeth Walton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , September 2023;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'A multi-voiced collection of poetry that canvasses a family's experiences of racism in New Zealand from the 1960s to the 1980s.'

Grace Yee Chinese Fish Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'Home and displacement sit side by side in Chinese Fish. Inhabiting multiple perspectives, Grace Yee’s polyphonic verse novel follows a family suspended between two cultures over two decades, from their resettlement in New Zealand from Hong Kong in the 1960s through to grief and loss.' (Introduction)   

Grace Yee Chinese Fish Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'Home and displacement sit side by side in Chinese Fish. Inhabiting multiple perspectives, Grace Yee’s polyphonic verse novel follows a family suspended between two cultures over two decades, from their resettlement in New Zealand from Hong Kong in the 1960s through to grief and loss.' (Introduction)   

Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Grace Yee and Adam Aitken Jennifer Mackenzie , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel ; Revenants Adam Aitken , 2022 selected work poetry
The Pains of Many Difficult Situations. Leone Gabrielle Reviews ‘Chinese Fish’ by Grace Yee Leone Gabrielle , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 39 no. 1 2024;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'Some books I’m not sure if I consume them or they consume me. Chinese fish has an amazing hypnotic clarity. Page turning, subterranean transitions keep moving me forward, they flow with no catch of air to breathe, a woman’s way book. Grace Yee’s words swim inside into the canals of my life, they are in me in the contemplation in my whole body. Usually, I have to chew on one poem at a time, but Chinese fish is different. The poems represent notions of home through contrasting sounds and sensations that gobbled me whole.' (Introduction)

Book Review : Chinese Fish, Grace Yee Elizabeth Walton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , September 2023;

— Review of Chinese Fish Grace Yee , 2023 single work novel

'A multi-voiced collection of poetry that canvasses a family's experiences of racism in New Zealand from the 1960s to the 1980s.'

Melbourne Poet Grace Yee Wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's Richest Literary Award Nicola Heath , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2024;
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