Joss: A history, Grace Yee’s second book of poetry following her multi-award-winning début collection, Chinese Fish (2024), navigates the spatial and temporal dimensions of heritage, inheritance, and memorialisation. From the Victorian goldfields to ‘China proper … bounded by Swanston-street and Russell-street’ (‘Little Fires’), Yee moves fluidly between the historical and contemporary, attuned to the voices of migrants and settlers. Like the Chinese graves in ‘2.8km west of Ballarat Bird World’, mapped in relation to major highways and recreational sites, Joss delves into the archives to locate the lives of the misrepresented and the marginalised.