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https://www.poetry.sg/goh-poh-seng-lately-the-goings-hard

https://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/99436.html

https://www.fishousepoems.org/scheherazade/

A gripping poem from an equally gripping collection (US: Acts of Self Consumption, 2023) by one of Singapore's most promising emerging poets.

Hao Yang shares some thoughts about war, and the role of literature in negotiating our relationship with the Other, which we should keep in mind as we consume media about human suffering in places far and wide. Poems read: 1) W.H. Auden's The Unknown Citizen 2) 莫邪 【有一个战争在远方想我】

Read this arcadian poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale

[Part 3 of 3] In this episode, Hao Yang and his guest interviewer, Daryl Lim, chat with veteran writer Robert Yeo about a multitude of topics, ranging from a history of Singapore poetry and drama to anecdotes from his life and career, from experimental poetry to his forays into the various literary forms. Listen to a conversation anchored in history, concerned about the present, and hopeful about...

Read the poem here: https://singaporeunbound.org/blog/2021/5/4/7th-singapore-poetry-contest-results

[Part 2 of 3] In this episode, Hao Yang and his guest interviewer, Daryl Lim, chat with veteran writer Robert Yeo about a multitude of topics, ranging from a history of Singapore poetry and drama to anecdotes from his life and career, from experimental poetry to his forays into the various literary forms. Listen to a conversation anchored in history, concerned about the present, and hopeful about...

[Part 1 of 3] In this episode, Hao Yang and his guest interviewer, Daryl Lim, chat with veteran writer Robert Yeo about a multitude of topics, ranging from a history of Singapore poetry and drama to anecdotes from his life and career, from experimental poetry to his forays into the various literary forms. Listen to a conversation anchored in history, concerned about the present, and hopeful about...

In this episode, Hao Yang and his guest interviewer, Daryl Lim, chat with veteran writer Robert Yeo about a multitude of topics, ranging from a history of Singapore poetry and drama to anecdotes from his life and career, from experimental poetry to his forays into the various literary forms. Listen to a conversation anchored in history, concerned about the present, and hopeful about the future.

Depression in Early Spring Erica Jong Meathooks, notebooks, the whole city sky palely flaming & spectral bombs hitting that patch of river I see from my eastern window. The poets are dead, the city dying. Anne, Sylvia, Keats with his passionate lungs, Berryman jumping from the bridge & waving, all the dreamers dead of their own dreams. Why have I stayed on as Horatio? Anne sends poems from...

Stephanie Dogfoot performs a set of poems at the 2023 National Day Reading hosted by Book Bar. Other performers include Jerrold Yam, Janelyn Dupingay, and Theophilus Kwek.

Music by Rachel W.yen:  ⁠rachelwyen.com⁠ For an immersive experience, head to  ⁠thenational.space⁠  for the unabridged version of the stories, along with curated archival images and photography by Benedict Lim. ABOUT THE WORK Set amidst the city-state’s National Day celebrations across 1966, 1999, and 2020, our protagonists in each time period trudge against the currents of the social order to car...

Music by Rachel W.yen:  ⁠rachelwyen.com⁠ For an immersive experience, head to  ⁠thenational.space⁠  for the unabridged version of the stories, along with curated archival images and photography by Benedict Lim. ABOUT THE WORK Set amidst the city-state’s National Day celebrations across 1966, 1999, and 2020, our protagonists in each time period trudge against the currents of the social order to car...

Music by Rachel W.yen:  rachelwyen.com For an immersive experience, head to  thenational.space  for the unabridged version of the stories, along with curated archival images and photography by Benedict Lim. ABOUT THE WORK Set amidst the city-state’s National Day celebrations across 1966, 1999, and 2020, our protagonists in each time period trudge against the currents of the social order to carve o...

ABOUT THE WORK Recipe for an Amanda Ruiqing Flynn story: 500g of the human heart, 100ml of poetry, a generous helping of loss, a heaped tablespoonful of social commentary, a dash of bittersweet, and a whole lot of life. The end results are delicious, though never the same. “Yearning” is a story about class, love, loss, and remembering. It delves into the role of a domestic helper in Singapore beyo...

ABOUT THE WORK prayer for the (un)familiar, wish we __ in the 2000s and another grandpa poem situate themselves between fantasy and heartbreak, melodramatic what ifs, and the growing pains and joys of being twenty something. These poems are the writer's attempts to find their way home to themselves through tongue-in-cheek performances of romance and different iterations of love. ABOUT THE WRIT...

ABOUT THE WORK prayer for the (un)familiar, wish we __ in the 2000s and another grandpa poem situate themselves between fantasy and heartbreak, melodramatic what ifs, and the growing pains and joys of being twenty something. These poems are the writer's attempts to find their way home to themselves through tongue-in-cheek performances of romance and different iterations of love. ABOUT THE WRIT...

ABOUT THE WORK prayer for the (un)familiar, wish we __ in the 2000s and another grandpa poem situate themselves between fantasy and heartbreak, melodramatic what ifs, and the growing pains and joys of being twenty something. These poems are the writer's attempts to find their way home to themselves through tongue-in-cheek performances of romance and different iterations of love. ABOUT NOR (IG:...

Erratum: The Little India riot happened in 2013, not 2015. Nicholas and Hao Yang discuss a play which they watched three weeks ago, HOTEL. Purchase the HOTEL script here: https://www.wildrice.com.sg/hotel-script-order-form/ Read Hao Yang's essay here: https://splooshsg.wixsite.com/sploosh/post/hotel-reflections

Kimberley Chia (she/her) is Singapore-born and Paris-based. Her poetry has been published/is forthcoming in ANMLY, Clare Market Review and Sine Theta Magazine, among others, and was shortlisted for Sing Lit Station’s 2021 Manuscript Bootcamp. When not writing, she is exploring movement, working at an international organisation, and cooking elaborate soups. Read the magazine here: https://issuu.com...

Meihan is the author of The Formidable Miss Cassidy (Epigram Books Fiction Prize co-winner 2021), its upcoming sequel The Enigmatic Madam Ingran (shortlisted for EBFP 2023), and The Messiah Virus (2019). Her short stories have appeared in 2022's Fish Eats Lion Redux, and the horror anthology, Fright. Read the magazine here: https://issuu.com/splooshsg/docs/issue_one_rise

Interdisciplinary artist Marla Bendini (IG: @marlabendiniart) performs two improvisations on guzheng and voice. Marla Bendini (she/her/they/them) is a cross-disciplinary trans and non-binary artist working in painting, text, sound and performance to articulate the infinitely faceted transgender experience on their own terms. Marla makes art that center personal histories, to talk about love, relat...

'The Ping Pong Song' by Jennifer Anne Champion. Jennifer Anne Champion is a writer and performance poet of mixed heritage. She has been described by Juice Magazine as gifted with “swift, animated style”. Jennifer has performed her work in Edinburgh, Berlin and Israel and is a regular voice in the Singapore spoken word scene. In 2015, she released her first solo work of poetry—A History of...