YAU NOI, also known as Wa Lan (a former pseudonym) is a Chinese poet, born in 1965 in a small village in Jiangsu Province, Southern China, and currently living in Hong Kong. He has previously published a number of poetry collections including Feng Ju (1993), The Poetry of Wa Lan (2002) and Selected Short Poems of Yau Noi (2022), and his work has previously been published in Swedish translation. The Crane: Selected Poems is the first full-length volume of his poems in English translation.