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About this author

Andy Quan is the author of four books, one of short fiction, Calendar Boy, two of poetry, Slant and Bowling Pin Fire, and one of gay erotica, Six Positions. He was the co-editor of Swallowing Clouds, an Anthology of Chinese Canadian Poetry. His work has appeared in a broad range of anthologies, magazines and literary reviews in Australia, Canada, and elsewhere. His work often deals with the themes of identity, community, and culture.

Born in Vancouver of Cantonese origin, Andy has lived in Toronto, Brussels, and London before settling in Sydney, Australia. A singer and songwriter, he has also self-produced tapes and CDs.


Average rating: 4.01 · 68 ratings · 23 reviews · 9 distinct works
Calendar Boy
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Slant
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Bowling Pin Fire
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Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
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Phantom Limb is a book of poety with shifts of voice and perspective to keep things lively - he inhabits Montaigne in one long poem, and in another, examines the life of Baby Boomers. Some steps back into history but mainly a contemporary inhabiting...more
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Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups
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I've read a few Anne Tyler novels, way back when, and obviously liked them enough to keep returning to them. She creates memorable, fully-dimensional characters and writes with wry observation of modern life and a hopefulness, a key theme about learn...more
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The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
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At university, with the incomparable Geoffrey Eathorne as our professor for our Commonwealth Literature course at Trent University in Canada, I read Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day. It was a stand out. I don't remember it perfectly but that it had b...more
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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon is one of those names that I scan bookshelves for, all on the basis of one book: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It was a big, substantial novel with ideas and history, whimsy and sadness, and unforgettable characters. And...more
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Slant
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Slant was my first book of poems - it was so exciting to be published. Silas White of Nightwood Editions did an amazing job as my editor. The voice of the poems of Slant is gentle and young, exploratory and energetic. More information and reviews up...more
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Swallowing Clouds by Andy Quan
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I had great fun co-editing this collection - and mainly due to the poets included. It's a wide range of diverse voices from so many different types of Chinese backgrounds, to families long in Canada to more recent immigrants. What links them together...more
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message 2: by Andy

Andy Quan Tara wrote: "Good to see you on Goodreads. May I say you look radiant. x"

nice to see you too! xo


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Tara Moss Good to see you on Goodreads. May I say you look radiant. x


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