(Online publication September 22 2011)
Jacob Edmond is senior lecturer in the department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, forthcoming), editor (with Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie) of Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (Brill / Global Oriental, 2011), and editor and translator (with Hilary Chung) of Yang Lian's Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland University Press, 2006).