Vostock and This Could Have Happened to You

Zijie Pan was born in 1956, in Horsham (Victoria), Australia. He has lived in Brisbane and Perth and now lives with his wife and daughter in Sydney. He has an MA in creative writing from Macquarie University and is currently writing a novel. This collection deals with wandering - shifts from east to west, and the borderlands in between. Chance encounters happen, identities become uncertain, elusive relationships form and then drift apart. These poems have a distinctly Australian feel, as they retrieve with precision the memories of growing up and exploring the Australian outback, then relocation to urban environments as an adult. Yet, from time to time, the stirrings of connections with a Chinese past suddenly manifest themselves as solid fragments of the poetic imagination of the writer.