Monsoon Belt (Fourth Phase)

Poetry is a niche genre among modern and contemporary literary genres. While the number of people who love and read poetry is far less than that of fiction and prose, poetry has not yet faded from the literary landscape, demonstrating its continued necessity.

This issue of "Monsoon Belt" starts with "poetry" and specially produces two poetry review topics for readers who are familiar with "poetry" or not familiar with "poetry": "Poetry Reviews of Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Malaysia" and "What I want to say about poetry is..."

The former consists of articles by authors from Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Malaysia commenting on each other's outstanding local poets, while the latter consists of reviews of their own selected poetry collections by several new authors.

3 Men Are Flowers/Zhang Yiping

Poetry Reviews of Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia
8. Poetry and the Melancholy of Our Times: Reading Li Youcheng’s Poetry Collection “Time” | Song Zijiang
14 Local Accents and Craftsmanship—"Stationless Water: Selected Poems of Malaysian Teochew Writers 1957-2014" | Zheng Zhengheng
22 Doomsday • Carriage • Dampness — A Brief Discussion of Chen Weizhe's "Poetry of Doomsday" | Chi Huangxuan
28 A Lonely Wandering Still Unfinished: My Reading of Mu Yan’s “Wandering with Rilke’s Portrait” | Yu Shaojun
36 A dog can’t spit out dentures — Nonsense poetry and the denture phenomenon | Xue Luoxun
40 Liao Weitang and Xiushi: A Brief Account of Two Contemporary Hong Kong Poets | Zhou Decheng
49 Poems, Written at Just the Right Distance: Reading Wu Yaozong's "Living by Imagination" | Chen Zhirui
52 The Violence and Tenderness Filtered by Time: Reading Wu Yaozong’s Poetry Collection, Living in Imagination | Zhou Hao
59 The Call of the City: A Preliminary Study of New Poetry by Post-80s Macau Poets | Ye Fuyan
63 The Body is Cool as Water at Night — A Brief Review of Guan Tianlin’s First Poetry Collection | Mu Yan Regarding poetry, what I want to say is…
69 Poetry Review: Yang Bangni's "Abridged Love Poems: A Soft Erection in My Hands" | Hayami Shinsuke
72 Reading "Searching for Home" and searching for a different Lü Yutao | Zheng Yulun
76 If/Not Yet Worn: An Observation of the New Generation of Malaysian Chinese Literature Creators and Their Fields | Ye Fuyan
82 This is not a collection of poems | Zifan

After reading the book review
92 “The literature award-winning work is surprisingly good!” — Talking about Huang Liqun’s “Room by the Sea” | Hua Zhen
96 Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy to the Comrade Core: Postscript to "Rangoon"/"Backlight" | Xu Tongyuan

Poetry and Literary Memory
110 Thinking of my deceased mother during the festive season | Zhang Cuo
112 LAPD shot and killed a homeless man | Zhang Cuo
114 Writing a Wrong Chapter | Li Youcheng