ABOUT THE BOOK/ BLURB
Out of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of language. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisis of faith to divorce, from fatherhood to being, yes, tattooed. Voices of killers and prostitutes. Poems at once intensely personal and universal about love, God and things that matter to the heart. Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong’s poetry, as well as his recent writings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hailed as "a brilliant new voice in Asia Pacific writing", Felix Cheong has made a virtue of transversing genres and a career of crossing boundaries. A former TV scriptwriter/producer/director and now freelance reporter/adjunct lecturer, he has written two plays and published seven books, including two tweenie novels, a motivational book and three collections of poetry.

EVENTS

Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems, will be launched at the Singapore Writers Festival 2009 on October 31, 12.30pm, at the Earshot Café.

To promote his new book, Felix will conduct a poetry clinic at the National Library on November 14 in which aspiring writers can bring their poems for 'diagnosis' and he will prescribe a 'cure' and, possibly, bitter 'medicine'.

On November 20, Felix will subject himself to the vagaries of an inquisitive public in a session at Books Actually called 'Ask the Writer Anything' in which anyone can pose a question about his writing and life and he's obliged to answer it.