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The Depth and the Breadth of the Land: Poetry of Witness in Myanmar 2021
Feb 10, 2022
Following the November 2020 elections in Myanmar, when it was clear that the results were a serio...
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"I am speaking full of dirt"–In Conversation with Hamid Roslan
Aug 18, 2019
Before the launch of his debut poetry collection, I had the chance to ask author Hamid Roslan som...
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“now I speak up”: A Conversation with Hamid & Xiao Ting
Jul 31, 2019
On Thursday, we joined Hamid and Xiao Ting at The Moon for a session about Hamid’s debut poetry c...
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"It gets a bit crazy lah"—The launch of parsetreeforestfire by Hamid Roslan
Jul 26, 2019
Last Sunday, we gathered at Grassroots Book Room for the launch of parsetreeforestfire. Debut aut...
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First Reads: parsetreeforestfire
Jun 7, 2019
What does it mean to speak? What does it mean to speak authentically? What does it mean to write ...
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First Reads: Never Before—50 Essential Poems
Oct 21, 2018
After two years of extensive archival and library research, 50 defining poems of Singapore Chines...
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The Struggle of Poetry
Oct 7, 2017
by Tse Hao Guang There’s a paradox in today’s poetry that, at least for me, won’t go away. It s...
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Why do poets use Rhyme?
Aug 23, 2017
What is the purpose of rhyme in poetry? How does rhyme effect the meaning of a poem? Joshua Ip, o...
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Where does Singapore poetry begin?
Jul 20, 2017
Theophilus Kwek, one of the editors of UnFree Verse, traces the roads leading to formal verse in ...
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