Books /Reviews

Anna’s poetry collections and books of translations also can be ordered through Sureway Press online book store.

find book at Frontenac House ‘s website

Anna Yin’s Breaking into Blossom is published by Frontenac House and launched on May 23,2025. Thank the publisher and editor Micheline Maylor-Kovitz for this beautiful book. Thanks Molly Peacock, Alice Major and Richard Greene for generous blurbs.

Susan McMaster for book review on driftwood June 2025 in Chinese & English
Terry McDonagh’s review on Live Encounters Poetry & Writing July 2025

This is a selection of Katherine L. Gordon’s fine poems (50 poems) with my Chinese translations, beautifully designed with a mirroring layout. After Midnight is a collection of poems that reflect some vibrant years of discovery, observation and experience of what being alive in this vast sea of life really means for each of us, as we seek a place in a huge and complicated universe. Some of it is lonely, some of it so intimately connected with all natural phenomena that we are never truly alone…

Steven Xu – Review of Katherine L Gordon’s ‘After Midnight’

This Chinese poetry collection by me comprises over 70 poems along with several prose pieces that share my experiences throughout my life journey along with various photographs. It shows the transformative power of poetry in my life and how I navigate the challenges of the world. Drawing inspiration from nature’s diverse manifestations and reflecting on the works of other eminent poets through meditative contemplation, I believe this collection full of colors and flavors.

This is a selection of DC Reid’s fine poems with my Chinese translations, beautifully designed with a mirroring layout. The book  includes five glosas themed on love and life, light and dark, religion and history, human vulnerabilities, immorality and suffering, then other twenty-two poems. All are complex with rich imagery and cultural allusions with Reid distinctive style… I hope through my translations, more audiences can not only enjoy and appreciate Reid’s fine work, but also understand Canadian challenged history and complexed life of ordinary people.
诗人译诗：对动态对等的别样追求 ——评星子安娜汉译《未知之域》

Since 2022, I have translated 72 poems by Don Guettridge, now the new book “Starlight Tapestry” with his poems and my translations has been published by SureWay Press and available on Chinese Book City, Amazon and SureWay Press book store etc. For review copies, please email: [email protected].

Blurbs by Albert Moritz, 牧辛 & R. G. Moyles.

【海外诗粹】主编 @Vivian雯 的图文精彩编辑和点评推荐

《Mirrors and Windows/镜子与窗户》includes 39 accomplished English-language poets’ work with Anna’s Chinese translation, and 20 skilled Chinese-language poets’ work with Anna’s English translation. It provides various styles and topics from the work of a wide range of ages of modern poets of East and West.

《愛的燈塔/Love’s Lighthouse》共230頁，60首精選中英文詩歌，並有精美插圖和25位中西詩人的推薦。Available on ShowWe. ( ISBN: 978-9863267294)

Nightlight:  (a book of haiku) Black Moss Press 2017   ISBN: 978-0-88753-575-8 (a book of haiku)

Review by Ron Dart on Clarion Journal of Spirit (June/2017)

Haiku projects by Anna Yin

Haiku Workshops at Schools, libraries and online classes

Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac (Black Moss Press 2015) ISBN: 978-0-88753-553-6

Book Launch in Nov. 2015 at AGM

Inhaling the Silence (Mosaic Press 2013) ISBN: 978-0-88962-994-3

George Elliot Clarke’s review in ARC Poetry
Book Review by Ron Dart…
Book review by Fran Figge (Ontario Poetry Society)
Book Review by  Luiza Sadowski
An interview from THE TORONTO QUARTERLY
Pat Connors’s Interview on NEWZ4U.NET
Comments from Allan Briesmaster  / Click to see a beautiful Book Trailer

Wings Toward Sunlight (Mosaic Press 2011) ISBN: 978-0-88962-928-8

Previous chapbooks (out of prints) with reviews:

Beyond My Knowing,    Farewell to Sunflowers,    Jasmine Star Light.

You have an affinity with the Imagists, a group of poets I think fascinating. The poems are certainly heartfelt and mysterious (in a good way!). You have a knack for saying things simply and evocatively. You should defend this gift! You have mapped out a technique for yourself and you should continue to explore its possibilities. It will be a long time before you have exhausted the style you have developed. —Richard Greene (English professor of U of T)
Yet, Yin herself inks poems in homage to Canuck bards Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page, and she quotes Anna Akhmatova and Federico Garcia Lorca. Her purported Imagism is, then, mixed up with the extended lyricism of Layton and Page,while also accepting the cryptic politics of Akhmatova and the populist balladry of Cohen and Garcia Lorca. In other words, Yin may refer to several millennia of Chinese poetic techniques as opposed to the Euro-American Modernist fancy for Imagism, especially that which eschews politics so as to be (more) “beautiful.” “– from Arc Poetry #73 / George Elliott Clarke ( English professor of Harvard University)
It is a beautiful book, crafted by a beautiful poet. You have a great tell-tale line. It is “You outlive.” Beautiful, beautiful. –John Robert Colombo
“Anna Yin’s delicate, sensitive and haunting poetry will sweep you off your feet, carry you to exciting, exotic places and land you right in your own backyard. From her carefully crafted Haiku, to her sorrowful, melodic, sweet verses, you will not be able to put her work down, nor will you be able to read those beautiful poems only once. You will want to read them over and over again.”  – I.B. Iskov, editor and founder of the Ontario Poetry Society