Cirrus@Austlit

'The poems in this issue bear an eerie resemblance to Malley's original manuscript, while updating some of McAuley's and Stewart's methods for the twenty-first century reader ... We feature forty five poems by both Australian and international poets in this issue. Each poet has chosen a suitable nom de malley and has also contributed a biography. We will not be revealing the names of these poets...' (Editorial, David Prater)

'In this book of poetry, Kingsbury is where the poet has been based since he came from the People's Republic of China in 1991, the first time he came into extensive contact, and conflict with a very different culture and multi-culture.

'Covering a period of about 160 years from the First Opium War (1840) to the beginnings of the 21st century, The Kingsbury Tales serves up a poetic plate of multi-taste choice foods with choice tales, each tale represented by a poem, not longer than one A-4 page, told by people from all walks of life, including wives, concubines, lawyers, diplomats, students, professors, factory workers, mental patients and visitors, from a colonial and postcolonial point of view.' (Publisher's blurb)