Yang Lian

Yang Lian is a Chinese poet who co-founded the influential literary magazine Jintian. He has been in exile since 1989, and now lives in London. Among his books is Where the Sea Stands Still(1999).

Tortured language: the poetry of human rights

Poet in the City and Amnesty International organised an event in London on 15 November to highlight the connections between poets and poetry and human rights abuses. Hosted by Helena

By Choman Hardi, Yang Lian and Jack Mapanje

/ 17 Nov 2005

Revolution in the head

Dear Rick, We first met in 1992 at the beautifully green Yaddo arts colony in upstate New York: a boyish American writer, and a Chinese poet in the third year

By Yang Lian and Rick Moody

/ 26 Sep 2004