Chinese-Language Poetry Workshop with Ma Yongbo

A rare opportunity to meet and learn about the development of Chinese Contemporary poetry from the man who has shaped it for over 40 years.
About this Event

马永波主持的中文诗歌工作坊

2026年10月10日 下午1:30
安格利亚鲁斯金大学

这位影响中国当代诗歌四十余载的诗人首次到访英国，大家将有幸与他会面，并聆听他讲述中国当代诗歌的发展脉络。

马永波出生于1964年，文学博士，中国先锋诗歌代表人物，领先的英美诗歌学者。他是难度写作和客观化诗学的奠基者，也是第一个将英美后现代诗歌译介进汉语的翻译家。从1986年起，他已出版原创与翻译著作80余卷，包括9部诗集。他的《白鲸》全译本，销量已超过60万册。他任教于南京理工大学。2026 年 8 月，他获美国国家垮掉派诗歌基金会（NBPF）颁发美国诗歌奖项：新一代垮掉派终身桂冠诗人（2026— 终身）。

题目:当代汉诗的客观化转折，从主体性到主体间性

主要内容:

第一章 叙述诗学：超离与深入

从垂直的歌唱到横向的叙说

从独白到对话和杂语

还原与超越

第二章 伪叙述诗学：写作的自反意识

倡导元文学意识的必要性与迫切性

元叙述的消解与伪叙述的由来

元语言评说

关于诗歌的诗歌

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A rare opportunity to meet and learn about the development of Chinese Contemporary poetry from the man who has shaped Chinese Contemporary poetry for over 40 years, on his first visit here to the UK

Chinese Poetry Workshop, conducted in Chinese, in person, by celebrated Chinese poet and translator Ma Yongbo 马永波, born in 1964, Ph.D, representative of Chinese Avant-garde poetry, and a leading scholar in Anglo-American poetry. He is the founder of Difficult writing and objectified poetics. He is also the first translator to introduce British and American postmodern poetry into Chinese. He has published over eighty original works and translations since 1986 including 9 poetry collections. His complete Chinese translation of Moby Dick has sold over 600,000 copies.

Topic: The Objectifying Turn in Contemporary Chinese Poetry, from Subjectivity to Intersubjectivity

Main Contents:

Chapter one - Poetics of Narrative: Detachment and Immersion

1. From Vertical Chanting to Horizontal Narration
2. Restoration and Transcendence
3. From Monologue to Dialogue and Heteroglossia

Chapter two - Poetics of Pseudo-Narrative: Self-Reflexive Awareness in Writing

1. The Necessity and Urgency of Advocating Meta-literary Awareness
2. The Dissolution of Metanarrative and the Origin of Pseudo-Narrative
3. Metalanguage Commentary
4. Poetry About Poetry