摘要
Poetry has always been an important part of my creative life. Having lived in China as a university English teacher for two years, I find myself being surrounded by active, bustling life of all kinds, not just the intellectual life of the classroom. People of all ages and from all over the world cycle to and fro, throw baseballs, play tennis and badminton, practise qigong or do disco dancing. Retired professors, now proud grandparents, collec’t their much-loved grandchildren from school. Stalls outside the campus repair shoes and bicycles, sell pancakes, fruit, cut keys, cook skewers of food. There is always movement, noise, something to draw the attention, alert the interest…
