Name Hailaiti NIYAZI (aka Hairat or Gheyret Niyaz)
Pen name Hailaite
Sex Male
Birth date 1959-06-14
Birth place Emin (Dörbiljin) County, Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Tianshan District, Urumchi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Continue reading
Down, down,Ernie Lowe: Free flying now已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Ernie Lowe, Free flying now, Tiananmen
The first generals ordered
to clear the square
refused and said,
“The people’s army
should not be used
against the people.”
Oh, the old chain-smokers
had other cards to play,
and it ended the way it seemed
that those things always would,
when men and women dreamed
too soon, too well—
crunch of truncheons, smell of b1ood,
the bucket in the corner of the cell;
Masada and Spartacus,
Boston Massacre, Harper’s Ferry,
Warsaw ghetto,
Hungary, Prague,
Kent State, Soweto.
Some would add Calvary. Continue reading
Jack McCarthy: ONE HUMAN HEART已关闭评论
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Tagged Jack McCarthy, ONE HUMAN HEART, Tiananmen
I saw him near George, not Tiananmen, Square,
A Chinese student, taller than the norm,
Open-shirted like a fifties Socialist, Swinging a plastic poke from M and S,
And chewing on his lip. Continue reading
Lesley Duncan: CHINAMAN (GLASGOW, 1989)已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chinaman, Lesley Duncan, Tiananmen
Tianamen
Is broad and clean
And you can’t tell
Where the dead have been
And you can’t tell
What happened then
And you can’t speak
Of Tianamen.
You must not speak.
You must not think.
You must not dip
Your brush in ink.
You must not say
What happened then,
What happened there.
What happened there
In Tiananmen. Continue reading
Pen name Zhao Xia (ever used)
Sex Male
Birth date 1962-05-22
Birth place Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Resident place Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Continue reading
Dear Tienchi Martin-Liao, president of ICPC
You are well aware of how close to my heart the Independent Chinese PEN Centre is. In our troubled times, it is a sign of hope that you are meeting in Hong Kong to celebrate the centenary of the May Fourth Movement. PEN benefitted from this anti-imperialist movement and its defence of Chinese culture by including the active participation of Chinese writers as early as 1924, just after our first PEN International congress in 1923. Continue reading
Jennifer Clement wrote to Tienchi Martin-Liao已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged ICPC, Jennifer Clement
Penname Niu Xing Jiang Hu
Sex Male
Birth date 1971-03-10
Birth place Fangcheng County, Henan Province
Resident place Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education Middle school Continue reading
