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Laura reads 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver, a poem that offers refrains of meditative, therapeutic quality, a poem for the trembling wild geese in each and every one of us, waiting to take flight into this cold, harsh world.  Wild Geese Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft ani...

saara reads 'dream song 29' by john berryman. Dream Song 29 by John Berryman There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart só heavy, if he had a hundred years & more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time Henry could not make good. Starts again always in Henry's ears the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime. And there is another thing he has in mind like a grave Sienese face a thous...

insyirah reads 'words' by sylvia plath. Words Sylvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like tears, like the Water striving To re-establish its mirror Over the rock That drops and turns, A white skull, Eaten by weedy greens. Years later I Encounter them on the road- Words dry and riderless, The indefatigable...

girish reads 'neighbours' by alfian sa'at.  Neighbours Alfian Sa'at During Hari Raya she knocks on my conscience, I knock on her door and I give her cakes. She says she likes them and gives me Sweets with gelatine inside. I throw them away. Poor woman, doesn’t know how to make cakes. Her children eat Maggi after school every day. That's why the elder one is in Normal stream And the younger on...

hao yang reads 'archaic torso of apollo' by rainer maria rilke, translated from the german original by stephen mitchell. Archaic Torso of Apollo Rainer Maria Rilke Trans. Stephen Mitchell We cannot know his legendary head With eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso Is still suffused with brilliance from inside, Like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, Gleams in all its power. Otherw...

jovan reads 'the eleventh state' by singaporean poet yong shu hoong. The Eleventh State “Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction”—Pablo Picasso Yong Shu Hoong To start with this bull in its most naive form, wash drawing on stone, is only natural. Then the reworking, redrawing, scrapping with the flat of the blade, followed by what’s described as “very elaborate pen work” — scrape!...

Hao Yang shares his thoughts after watching a dramatised reading of Psychobitch by Amanda Chong during The Necessary Stage's Playwrights' Cove 2022. Transcript: https://splooshsg.wixsite.com/sploosh/post/psychobitch

reading my favourite shakespeare sonnet! So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet seasoned show'rs are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As ’twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then bettered that the world may see my pleasure; Someti...

'Each time I see you now,/ I neglect to confess what I've done. I think I'm/ awakening to the fact that it has hardly/ mattered...'

jovan and i read and discuss 'love opened a mortal wound' by sor juana inés de la cruz.

jovan and i read and discuss 'depression in early spring' by erica jong.

jovan and i discuss 'telescope' by louise glück.

jovan and i discuss 'moonface' by lune loh.

0:57 -- 'Moonface' by Lune Loh 21:00 -- 'Telescope' by Louise Glück 35:15 -- 'depression in early spring' by Erica Jong 59:35 -- 'Love Opened A Mortal Wound' by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Read by Hao Yang.

Part 2 of the longer episode.

Read by Hao Yang.

Part 1 of the longer episode.

Read by Jovan.

Jovan and I discuss 'The Ballad of Arlene & Nelly' and 'Siren' from Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe, a Singaporean writer based in the United States of America.

I read 'A Big Pile Of Bak Chor Mee' from Tse Hao Guang's 'Deeds of Light'.

I read 'Earthworks' from Tse Hao Guang's 'Deeds of Light'.

I read 'Seven Thousand' from Tse Hao Guang's 'Deeds of Light'.

I read 'Richmond Hill' from Tse Hao Guang's 'Deeds of Light'. Richmond Hill is a city in Ontario, Canada.

I read 'Mentakab' from Tse Hao Guang's 'Deeds of Light'. Mentakab is a town in Pahang, Malaysia.