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Two upcoming readings in Australia

2 months ago | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

Friends in Oz: If you’re around, please consider attending one of these upcoming poetry readings…the venues both ask for advance registration: Better Read Than Dead bookstore, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/we-met-in-beijing-anthony-tao-in-conversation-with-linda-jaivinI’ll be in conversation with local author Linda Jaivin for this one; we met in Shanghai several years back, when she was judging an erotic fiction competition. I did not win.
Downturn

Sep 17, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

Apologies for the lack of poems recently. Our bar, featured in this poem (from last Christmas) and this podcast from a couple months ago, changed locations at the start of this month, and the weeks before and after the move have been hectic, to say the least. If you’re in Beijing, swing by the new place—we’re just south of Beixinqiao, sharing the location with a coffee shop called Self.
The Wig

Aug 3, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

I’m moving house this week, again, and realizing how much stuff I’ve accumulated through the years. I suppose it makes sense: I’ve always been a hoarder of memories, and each thing here (that shouldn’t be) is tied to a memory I have a hard time discarding. I’ve known people who are the exact opposite, as unattached to stuff as they are to experiences (let the past lie), as eager to tidy and downsize as they are to forget and unburden.
Love, death, and a book bar

Jun 20, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

I read poetry at the Hangzhou bookstore In a Cultural House(纯真年代 chúnzhēn niándài) last week. This is the story of its founders. Her belly was distended, intestines near rupture. She had a coin flip’s chance, the doc said. After the surgery there would be chemo, purification by poison, cold sweats and sleepless nights.
Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing

Jun 9, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

I’ll have a new poem ready soon, along with, somewhat excitingly, a music video…but real quick, I want to mention that I’ll be doing four readings in four cities this week, starting tomorrow.
Beijing is not a beautiful city

May 28, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

Sorry for being a bit awol, I had a big book launch in Beijing last week, with a few more events coming up. There’s a Royal Asiatic Society-sponsored reading on June 5, and then I’m hitting the road, with readings in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing — June 11-14. Come say hi if you’re around. And for those who are in Hong Kong, you can now find We Met in Beijing on the shelves of the beloved bookstore Hong Kong Reader.
Announcing: My debut poetry book

Mar 29, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

A quick announcement:My first. We Met in Beijing is the culmination of fifteen years of living and writing in Beijing. It was a manuscript for a very long time — I alluded to it in a post last November — and now it is something I can hold and flip through. Here’s what it looks like:The cover art is by Johanna Søvik, a Norwegian artist I met in Beijing. Go have a look at her amazing work. This book was a long time coming.
Beijing Beauty

Mar 22, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

They continued filing in as I was ready to leave, characters I wanted to get to know, each living a book I wanted to read, and it struck me — as I am struck sometimes with awe and fear that my story will never live up — that we are lucky to be here, straddling the lines and squeezed between them, with secrets we tell and secrets we keep, almost knowing who we want to remember and who we’ll never forget, among the beautiful in the way silhouettes can be, suggesting substance underneath, or...
Poems You Give Away, Poems You Keep

Jan 7, 2024 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

There are poems you give awayand poems you keep. Ones you sellon the driveway and ones you cherishlike an antique. There are poemsinstantly forgotten and poems that visitin sleep. Or read to yourself againlike a postcard written by handwhen people still did that sort of thing. A love note scrawled again and again, with different words but the same sentiment, kept alive like a mouse batted aroundby a cat who blinks and says out loudYou can get away this time, yes you can.
Choosing Christmas in Beijing

Dec 30, 2023 | anthonytao.substack.com | Anthony Tao

December 24-25, 2023What feels like ages ago, though it was onlya few years before the pandemic, a giant dancing Santaflashed from the façade of a tall hotelin the city’s main entertainment district,low-res animatron wiggling its legs on loop. Sometime later, someone said no more Santas,no more pine trees trussed up with lights;were this country’s own holidays not enough?

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