Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of six Asian Australian poets from the 2013 poetry collection Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill, along with several additional texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 EAL/D Module B: Language, Identity and Culture.

Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems:

• ‘This is Where it Begins’ by Merlinda Bobis

• ‘My Hakka Grandmother’ by Eileen Chong

• ‘The Double Man’ by Ouyang Yu

• ‘Some New Perspectives’ by Ee Tiang Hong

• ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige

• ‘Translucent Jade’ by Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü)

alongside the following texts:

• André Naffis-Sahely’s ‘Mother Tongues’

• Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore’s ‘Hecate is Often Erased from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Now She's Centre Stage – in Noongar Language’

• Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘The Danger of a Single Story’

to develop their knowledge of how language can be used to affirm, challenge, or disrupt dominant assumptions about identity and culture.

Key Features

Our EAL/D editions include:

• Text summaries and glossaries.

• Clear explanations of important literary devices and concepts.

• Rich individual and collaborative tasks.

• Integrated Focus on Writing tasks to ensure students have the opportunity to experiment with techniques, styles and forms in a range of modes and media to produce their own imaginative, critical, discursive, and persuasive pieces.

• Five practice exam-style essay questions.

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Luke Bartolo

Format: PDF download, 132 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 66 4