Anniversary Snow by Yang Lian Jay Ramsay Her poems belong to an

Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés

he would die of complications from leukaemia just four months later

Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time

To be alive is to be inside the wave

the spiralling form takes over

Anniversary Snow by Yang Lian Jay Ramsay Her poems belong to an"If Yang Lian is new to you, I hope it spurs you on to read more of this extraordinary poet. If you have read him before, then you will find familiar themes here: the search for a mature wisdom, the need to readjust the balance between modernism and the classical heritage, the impossibility of giving easy solutions to the problem of evil and suffering in this world. There is also a new sense of his coming to terms with the devastating loss of his