Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng, Captive and Temporal which evokes the texture of

which evokes the texture of daily life in the megacity

Could that really be what life is all about

It is open to delighting us in the way that Barthes said a photograph was open to animating him: "this is what creates every adventure"

Smoke-Encrypted Whispers has just won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Book of the Year and Best fiction

and Westerly

Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng, Captive and Temporal which evokes the texture ofShortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry) Nguyn Tin Hong is a Melbourne based poet, translator and poetry editor. His poems appeared in the Saturday Age, HEAT, Cordite, Peril, Black Inc Publishing anthologies of Best Australian Poems, Poetry International website and Contemporary Asian Australian Poets anthology [Puncher & Wattmann, 2013]. With Vagabond Press he has published Years, Elegy a chapbook in the Rare Objects series and