Yang Lian is a Swiss-Chinese poet, novelist and essayist. He has published fourteen collections of poems, two collections of prose and one selection of essays in Chinese. His work has also been translated into more than twenty languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and many Eastern European languages. He has been a poet-in-exile since 1989 lives in London and Berlin.

Dead in Exile. A collection of Poems. Translation Mabel Lee. Tiananmen Edition 1990.
Concentric Circles. Translation Brian Holton and Agnes Hung-Chong Chan, Tarset, Bloodaxe Books, 2005.
Notes of a Blissful Ghost. Translation Brian Holton, Renditions Hong Kong 2002.
Anniversary Snow. A collection of poems. Translation Brian Holton. Shearsman Books, UK 2019.
威尼斯哀歌, Venice Elegy, Elegia Veneziana. Translation Brian Holton and Federico Picerni. Damocle Edizioni, Venice 2019.
A tower built downwards. Translation Brian Holton. Bloodaxe 2023.