Latest addition:
'Tunnel of Love', Kyoto Journal issue 69, February 2008.
Edited journals
'Borderline': Landfall, Autumn issue 211,
May 2006.
Short fiction published
'Tunnel of Love', Kyoto Journal issue 69, February 2008.
‘Daily Special’ in Best New Zealand Fiction 2,
November 2005, Random House.
‘Hereditary Fiction: The Mok Tapes’, Meanjin, Autumn issue May 2004.
‘The Beach,’ Landfall, Spring issue 206, November 2003.
Poetry published
‘Whispers’ (a translation game with Yang Lian and Jacob Edmond), Landfall,
Autumn issue 211, May 2006.
‘An Arabic Poetry Lesson in Jakarta,’ Best New Zealand Poems 2004, Institute of Modern Letters (online), March 2005 (originally published in Landfall, Autumn issue 207, June 2004).
‘A Czech Poetry Lesson in China’, ‘An Arabic Poetry Lesson in Jakarta’ & ‘KL
Sunrise’, Landfall, Autumn issue 207, June 2004.
‘Three Represents for the Communist Party of China’s 16th National Congress’, Poetry New Zealand, issue 28, March 2004.
‘Reverse Engineer a Poem for Sport: Exploded Sestina’ & ‘Xia Yu’, Sport,
Spring issue 29, October 2002.
‘Open Fire’, Eclect, August 2002.
‘Westward Ho!’, ‘There to where’ & ‘Jakarta Sestina’, JAAM, Spring issue
11, October 1999.
‘Hegel’s Holiday’, Trout, issue 4, Autumn 1998.
Essays, reviews, arts interviews
'The Beach', short memoir of the the recording period of Caterpillar & Butterfly by The Tokey Tones in Soundtrack: 118 Great New Zealand Albums, Ed. Grant Smithies, 2007.
'A place in the city', backgrounder on the No Chinatown Auckland Triennial project by the Long March, Daniel Malone and Kah Bee Chow, Listener, 11 March 2007.
'I am not a reality show: Fantasy Island, Survivor Island, Exile Island and the art of Kah Bee Chow', Auckland Triennial Catalogue, March 2007
'A look back in anger', review of Mao: the Unknown story and
interview with authors Jung Chang & Jon Halliday, Listener, 27 August
2005.
‘Mao’s trail of
tears’, review of Mao: the Unknown Story by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday, The Dominion Post, 27 June 2005.
'Never enough,' review of Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, Listener, 15 October 2005.
‘The American keeps talking’, review of The Darling by Russell Banks, Listener, 5 February 2005.
‘Race you there’ (PDF),
Landfall Essay Prize co-winner, Landfall 208, November 2004 (reprinted in Great New Zealand Argument, Activity Press, July 2005, recorded for Radio
New Zealand archives 2005, excerpt published in New Zealand Herald June
2005).
‘Return of the King’, review of Tarzan Presley by Nigel Cox, Landfall 208, November 2004.
‘England’s Dreaming’ review of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by
Susanna Clarke, Listener, 23 October 2004.
‘Swamp Thing’, review of Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath, Listener,
18 September 2004.
‘Sick bird of youth,' review of The Book of Proper Names by Amelie
Nothomb, Listener, 7 August 2004.
‘Chinatown,’ review of The Noodle Maker and interview with author Ma
Jian, Listener, 5 June 2004.
‘Life is a box of Chocolat’, review of Jigs & Reels and interview with author Joanne Harris, Listener, 22 May 2004.
‘How to resurrect Rwanda’, review of A Sunday at the pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, Listener, 13 March 2004.
The Worst Man the World, ever, possibly’, review of Genghis Khan: Life,
Death & Resurrection by John Man, Listener, 17 April 2004.
‘If it’s Tuesday it must be Chechnya’, review of four travel books including To Catch a Tartar by Chris Bird and Eight feet in the Andes by
Dervla Murphy, Listener, 31 January 2004.
Honours
Speaker at the Shanghai International
Literary Festival, March 2007
Creative New Zealand Red Gate Gallery Beijing Residency, 2007.
New Zealand Arts Foundation’s New Generation Laureate, 2006.
First Asian editor of New Zealand’s flagship national literary journal Landfall, Issue 211: 'Borderline', May 2006.
Recipient of the Creative New Zealand Todd New Writers Bursary 2005.
Selected for Best New Zealand Fiction: 2 by Random House, 2005.
Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2004, by the Institute of Modern Letters.
Winner of the 2004 Landfall Essay Competition.
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