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Category: poetry

Lawrence Pettener interviews Malaysian poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I corresponded with Malaysian pioneer generation poet Shirley Lim in July this year. This interview was a written response to … More

Poetry is dead. Long live poetry

By Lawrence Pettener Who said Malaysian poetry in English was dead? Many have tried to convince me but they should … More

Poetry as life and death: a review of Deborah Wong’s ‘Autopsy of Sentiments’

By Lawrence Pettener Review: Deborah Wong’s poetry chapbook, ‘Autopsy of Sentiments’ (Working Desk Publishing, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia 2020) This chapbook … More

Standing with the ancestors now, a poet of the mists: a tribute to Irish poet Eavan Boland (1944 – 2020)

By Orla Fay Eavan Boland was born on the 24th of September 1944 which makes her of the same generation … More

eavan boland , ireland , irish , poems , poetry

Malaysian literary event Readings turns 15. We interviewed Sharon Bakar who has been curating it for the past 13 years

By Mohani Niza (Main picture by Tina Isaacs) In 2005, Malaysian novelist, poet and educator Bernice Chauly created a literary … More

Life in books: This Singaporean woman curates an interesting bookstagram on social justice topics

By Mohani Niza Firqin Sumartono is a huge bookworm – especially on books on social justice. In 2017, the Singaporean … More

With her piece called ‘Mother’, Sheena Baharudin proves she is a spoken word poet of the real deal

By Mohani Niza It is kind of hard to ignore Sheena Baharudin when she performs. If you’re familiar with the … More

malaysia , poems , poetry , poetry cafe kl , sheena baharudin , spoken word poems , spoken word poetry

Selected quotes from our interview of Australian poet Jane Williams

Jane Williams was born in England in 1964 and is based in Tasmania, Australia. She is a regular fixture at … More

“Humour and lightness”: an interview with Australian poet Jane Williams on what moves her

By Lawrence Pettener Writer Lawrence Pettener sat down with contemporary Australian poet Jane Williams last November at a coffee house … More

‘The Noise of Time’: an evening of poems in eleven languages

By Anna Graubaum It was International Poetry Day last week on the 21st of March. I arrived at Lit Books, … More

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