# Chinese Fish > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chinese_Fish > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chinese_Fish.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Fish > Source revision: 1332440861 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 2023 poetry collection by Grace Yee Chinese Fish Author Grace Yee Language English Genre Poetry collection Publisher Giramondo Publishing Publication date June 2023 Publication place Australia Media type Print Pages 144 pp. Awards 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Literature, winner ISBN 9781922725448 ***Chinese Fish*** is a collection of poems by Australian poet [Grace Yee](/source/Grace_Yee), published by [Giramondo Publishing](/source/Giramondo_Publishing) in 2023.[1] The collection contains 7 poems, along with sections titled "translation", "Notes" and "Acknowledgments".[2] The collection won the 2024 [Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Poetry](/source/Victorian_Premier's_Literary_Awards#Poetry), and the [Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Victorian Prize for Literature](/source/Victorian_Premier's_Literary_Awards#Victorian_Prize_for_Literature).[3] ## Synopsis The collection tells an intergenerational story of the racism encountered by a migrant Chinese family in New Zealand from the 1960s to the 1980s. The poems integrate hybrid Cantonese-Taishanese into English phrases. ## Contents - "Happy Valley" - "Paradise" - "Good Luck and Plenty" - "Chinese Fish" - "English Mittens" - "For the Good Husband" - "Sunday Gardening" ## Critical reception Writing for *ArtsHub* Elizabeth Walton noted that "Yee shifts both voices and forms in her wry autoethnographic poetry, offering a chronological map of her family as they slowly integrate into their chosen diaspora...The touch is always light, despite presenting the brutal reality of the family's lived experience." She concluded that the collection is "an essential read".[4] In her review for *Cordite Poetry Review* Jennifer Mackenzine called the book "one of the most elaborately structured collections of poetry I've come across in some time." She continued "It is a joyous celebration of the materiality of a life, of the chaotic sights and smells of a family life which is loud, disorganised, and adept at adapting its rituals to a society that is silent, organised, and judgemental."[5] ## See also - [2023 in Australian literature](/source/2023_in_Australian_literature) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-NLA_1-0)** ["*Chinese Fish* by Grace Yee"](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8844016). National Library of Australia. Retrieved 21 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Austlit_2-0)** ["*Chinese Fish* by Grace Yee"](https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/26023160). Austlit. Retrieved 21 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-winners2024_3-0)** ["Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024"](https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2024/). *The Wheeler Centre*. [Wheeler Centre](/source/Wheeler_Centre). Retrieved 2 February 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [""Book review: Chinese Fish, Grace Yee""](https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-chinese-fish-grace-yee-2662183/). ArtsHub, 4 September 2023. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [""Jennifer Mackenzie Reviews Grace Yee and Adam Aitken""](http://cordite.org.au/reviews/mackenzie-yee-aitken/). Cordite Poetry Review, 18 December 2023. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025. v t e Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry 1985-1989 The Three Fates & Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson (1985) Your Shadow by Kevin Hart (1985) Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster (1986) St. Clair by John A. Scott (1986) The Auschwitz Poems by Lily Brett (1987) The Domesticity of Giraffes by Judith Beveridge (1988) Bone Scan by Gwen Harwood (1989) 1990-1999 The Clean Dark by Robert Adamson (1990) The Winter Baby by Jennifer Maiden (1991) Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems by Robert Harris (1992) Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray (1993) Certain Things by Robert Gray (1994) Anima and Other Poems by Bruce Beaver (1995) In the Human Night by Peter Bakowski (1996) Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray (1997) Broken Land by Coral Hull (1998) Pure and Applied by Gig Ryan (1999) 2000-2009 Iceman by John Millett (2000) Barefoot Speech by John Mateer (2001) Afterimages by Robert Gray (2002) Anything the Landlord Touches by Emma Lew (2003) Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge (2004) 1-100 by M. T. C. Cronin (2005) Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter (2006) Jack by Judy Johnson (2007) Press Release by Lisa Gorton (2008) The Golden Bird by Robert Adamson (2009) 2010-2019 Possession by Anna Kerdjik Nicholson (2010) The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy (2011) Armour by John Kinsella (2012) Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden (2014) The Beautiful Anxiety by Jill Jones (2015) Crankhandle by Alan Loney (2016) Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke (2017) Argosy by Bella Li (2018) Tilt by Kate Lilley (2019) 2020–present Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green (2020) Case Notes by David Stavanger (2021) Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander (2022) At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao (2023) Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (2024) Gawimarra: Gathering by Jeanine Leane (2025) Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (1985–present) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Chinese Fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Fish) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Fish?action=history)). 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