Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of six Asian Australian poets from the 2013 poetry collection Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill, along with several additional texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems:

1. ‘This is Where it Begins’ by Merlinda Bobis

2. ‘Home’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

3. ‘New Accents’ by Ouyang Yu

4. ‘Mother’ by Vuong Pham

5. ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige

6. ‘Translucent Jade’ by Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü)

alongside the following texts:

1. André Naffis-Sahely’s ‘Mother Tongues’

2. Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore’s ‘Hecate is Often Erased from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Now She's Centre Stage – in Noongar Language’

3. Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘The Danger of a Single Story’

to develop their knowledge of how language can be used to affirm, challenge, or disrupt dominant assumptions about identity and culture.

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Luke Bartolo

Format: A4 paperback, 134 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 55 8