translation. At the same university he was from 1993-7 a Lector in Chinese, teaching Chinese language. From 2000-2009 Holton worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, teaching Chinese-English translation and cultural studies, as an Assistant Professor. Marriage Holton is married to Guo Ying (郭莹), an author of popular Chinese travel books. Published works With Herbert, W.N. and Yang, Lian eds (forthcoming 2010/11) Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (working title) Tarset: Bloodaxe Books. With Agnes Hung-Chong Chan: Yang Lian (2009) Lee Valley Poems. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books Yang Lian (2008) Pisces Rising. Exeter: Shearsman. With Jacob Edmond and Hilary Chung (2006): Yang Lian: Unreal City. A Chinese Poet in Auckland. Auckland: Auckland University Press. With Harvey Holton: Yang Lian (2005) Whaur the Deep Sea Devauls. Edinburgh, Kettillonia* With Agnes Hung-Chong Chan: Yang Lian (2005). Concentric Circles. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books Yang Lian (2002) Notes of a Blissful Ghost: Selected Poems by Yang Lian. HK: Renditions Paperback Yang Lian (2002) Darknesses: trilingual (Chinese-Italian-English) edition. Rome: Play On Poetry Yang Lian (1999) Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems by Yang Lian. Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books. UK Poetry book Society Recommended Translation. Excerpts used by composer Liza Lim as the libretto of a piece for soprano and guqin commissioned by Festival d'Automne à Paris, 2005. Yang Lian, (1995) China Daily: trilingual (Chinese-German-English) edition. Berlin: Schwartzkopf & Schwartzkopf Yang Lian (1995) Where the Sea Stands Still. London: WellSweep Press. Yang Lian (1994) Non-Person Singular: Collected Shorter Poems of Yang Lian. London: WellSweep Press. In Scots "Staunin Ma Lane: Chinese Verse in Scots and English". Shearsman Books (2016) "The Nine Sangs" in Lallans 67. Blackford, Perthshire, Hairst 2005 With Harvey Holton: Yang Lian (2005) Whaur the Deep Sea Devauls. Edinburgh, Kettillonia. "Frae the Nine Sangs: A wee Pendicle ti ‘Suddron Sangs’ bi Dauvit Hawkes" in May, R. & Minford, J. ed. (2003) A Birthday Book for Brother Stone HK: CUHK Press. Mossflow (article about and extract from my Scots version of Shuihu Zhuan – Water Margin) at http://vladivostok.com/Speaking_In_Tongues/mossflow.html (May 1998) "On Luve" by Qiao Jifu: Edinburgh Review No, 99, Edinburgh (March 1998) "Sangs": versions of Shi Jing poems, in Finlay, A., ed., Carmichael's Book, a homage to Alexander Carmichael's 'Carmina Gaedelica’, Artbook and Morning Star: Inverness and Edinburgh (1997) Yang Lian "Whaur the Deep Sea Devauls" Gairfish, Newcastle (1997) Poems by Li Bo, Tao Qian, etc.: in Stokes, T. (ed.) Water on