Yang Lian has published fifteen collections of poems, two collections of poetical prose, many essays and one big book of autobiographical prose in Chinese. he has translated all George Orwell's fiction works into Chinese (not published yet because of the censorship in China very recently). His work has also been translated into more than thirty languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and many Eastern European languages. Among 15 books of poems in English translation, his most representative works including the sequences and long poems such as Yi, Where the Sea Stands Still, Concentric Circles, Narrive Poem and Anniversary Snow...etc. they display a profound understanding of, and creative links with, Classical Chinese poetry. His work has been reviewed as "like MacDiarmid meets Rilke with Samurai sword drawn!", "one of the most representative voices of Chinese literature" and "one of the great world poets of our era". Yang Lian and the Scottish poet W. N. Herbert together with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu are the co-editors of Jade Ladder, a brand new Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1978–2008) in English, and published by Bloodaxe Books in Apr, 2012. his latest book in English is The Third Shore, the anthology of Chinese – English poets’ mutual translation (co-editor W N Herbert), published by Shearsman Books (UK), and Eastern Chinese Normal University Press (China), 2013. his latest book-length poem was titled Narrative Poem, an autobiographical poems. All these years, his literary writing, as well as his out spoken voice, has been called as a highly individual voice in world literature, politics and culture. 