Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Yang Lian I can think of few

I can think of few other books that have given me so much delight so easily

Jack Mapanje

In another poem he dreams that ‘the same river is still here / the house is the old house and I am here in the morning / in the sunlight and the same bird is singing’

‘’”I will be electric in the sweet world”

Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Yang Lian I can think of fewPBS Special Commendation Summer 2016 Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Roomto Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the