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'Raffles Link' 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 Clocks...

Euginia Tan is a multi-disciplinary writer based in Singapore. She has experience in various creative forms including poetry, prose and theatre. Her third poetry collection, Phedra (Ethos Books) was nominated for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize. Her play-writing credits include Holidays (under mentorship of Joel Tan), Tuition (Twenty Something Theatre Festival), Modest Travels (produced by Tan...

'Dear Mr Accordion Man At Bishan MRT' 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 poe...

David Wong Hsien Ming discovered poetry as a child at a Sunday lunch. His work explores the dualities, contradictions and absurdities of being, and has appeared on platforms like Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Mascara Literary Review. His first collection, For the End Comes Reaching, is a meditation on the sense of loss that accompanies each having. Read the magazine here: https://issuu.c...

Singer-Songwriter-Poet-Textile Artist Jennifer Anne Champion performs a set of three songs at sploosh! session #3, namely Dear Mr Accordion Man at Bishan MRT, Raffles Link, and The Ping Pong Song. 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, B...

Kevin Martens Wong is a gay, non-binary Kristang / Portuguese-Eurasian speculative fiction writer, independent scholar and linguist born, bred and based in Singapore. He leads the internationally-recognised grassroots movement to revitalise the Kristang language in Singapore, Kodrah Kristang, and currently runs his own freelance coaching and consulting initiative, Merlionsman (merlionsman.com). Re...

JY Tan is a student from Singapore. Her work appears in Salamander, Lunch Ticket and Rust + Moth among other journals. She also edits for Body Without Organs (on hiatus). She enjoys learning about love languages, and creating Spotify playlists. Visit her at jy tan .  Read the magazine here: https://issuu.com/splooshsg/docs/issue_one_rise

Cheng Him is based in Singapore. Their work has been featured in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS), The Kindling, Tiger Moth Review among many others. They are part of the writing group known as the ATOM Collective. Read the magazine here: https://issuu.com/splooshsg/docs/issue_one_rise

In this episode, Hao Yang reads a poem he wrote back in 2021 that first came to him through the image of a tug of war between the mother and the baby, with the umbilical cord between them. He also reflects on the real-life incidents and conversations that have contributed to the creation of the poem. For many queer children, their relationship with their parents are complicated by feelings of love...

A Tamil poem written by Piramil. "Separated from the wing, a feather writes the story of a bird in the endless pages of the wind."

itu ramalan pendirian yang tidak berpijak pada lahan kenyataan itu andaian kesombongan yang tidak jenuh menguji kebenaran jam lima hujan lagi itu cuba uji untuk menandingi hakiki siapa yang sengaja menconteng grafiti takdir di dinding bumi beriman hati ada hamun maki bernada puisi yang tidak ada di dalam kamus rasmi ceriteralah jika ada yang berani melawan gelombang bongkak berkaryalah dengan nove...

Final part of our interview with Kristian and Mysara.

Part 2 of our interview with Kristian and Mysara.

Part 1 of our interview with Kristian and Mysara.

In this episode, Hao Yang and Saara sit down for a conversation with Kristian-Marc James Paul and Mysara Aljaru, co-editors of Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2022). 6:15 Defining 'Brownness' 9:50 Concept of Anthology 14:10 Reception 18:10 Reflections on Editorial Process 27:00 Importance of Brown Representation in Singlit 30:30 Experience in Literary Scene...

Hao Yang reads 'Inheritance' (from 'Chasing Curtained Suns') by Jerrold Yam.

Hao Yang reads 'Freestyle' (from 'Chasing Curtained Suns') by Jerrold Yam.

Hao Yang reads 'Diving After Icarus' (from 'Chasing Curtained Suns') by Jerrold Yam.

Hao Yang reads 'A History of Sandcastles' (from 'Chasing Curtained Suns') by Jerrold Yam.

பிரிவுகள் - கலாப்பிரியா (Separations - Kalapriya)

Jovan, Saara, and Hao Yang perform a dramatic reading of Act 5 Scene 5 from Macbeth, Shakespeare's gothic play about fate and ambition, witches and insanity, accompanied with the much-memed vine boom sound effect. 

diam-diam lapan baris tidask cukup untuk menerangkan gelap mendadak di ruang sempit yang meggentel masa mengecil terselit di celahan di gigiku yang lama reput dan nafasku yang tersangkut di antara kertas tipis dan kuman naik angin. lapan baris tidak cukup untuk aku merapikan ronyok isiku yang berkucar-kacir di dalam pelukan masa depan yang tercicir entahlah dekat mana sambil aku meraba-raba jatuh...

Jovan, Saara, and Hao Yang perform a dramatic reading of Act 4 Scene 1 (the famous 'double, double toil and trouble' scene) from Macbeth, Shakespeare's gothic play about fate and ambition, accompanied with the much-memed vine boom sound effect.  Credits:  (Ominous Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/...

"Pantun is a disjunctive form of poetry which always come in two parts, the first part being the prefatory statement called pembayang or sampiran that has no immediate logical or the narrative connection with the second or closing statement called maksud or isi." - Wikipedia yang kurik itu kundi yang merah itu saga yang baik itu budi yang indah itu bahasa translation: those (saga seeds)...

Jovan, Saara, and Hao Yang perform a dramatic reading of Act 3 Scene 4 from Macbeth, William Shakespeare's gothic play about fate and ambition, accompanied with the much-memed vine boom sound effect.