"Vital, form-busting gorgeousity made flesh... New Singapore Poetries breaks—and makes—new ground with the ardency and agency of these fresh voices."—Amanda Lee Koe, author of Ministry of Moral Panic.
Hear the anthology contributors read from their work. The second of six events in New York and Singapore to celebrate the anthology. Hosted by co-editor Marylyn Tan.
Expect to hear from the following writers:
Andrew Kirkrose Devadason is a queer transgender Singaporean. Under his birth name, Devadason contributed the winning piece of the 2019 Hawker Prize to the journal OF ZOOS. His work has appeared in journals, including Cordite Poetry Review and PERVERSE, and in anthologies including EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices.
Anurak Saelaow's work has been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cultural Weekly, The Kindling, Ceriph, and elsewhere. He is the author of one chapbook, Schema (The Operating System, 2015), and holds a BA in creative writing and English from Columbia University.
ila’s research centers on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space and histories that lie hidden, particularly kinship with the land and sea. She writes short speculative prose on @myheartisanelephant, an ongoing project about the city titled “pura-pura parade.”
Mok Zining is obsessed with random things: words, arabesques, sand. The Orchid Folios is her first book. Zining lives in Singapore, where she spends most of her free time working on The Earthmovers, an essay collection about sand.
Marylyn Tan is a sensuous and queer writer-artist-reprobate. Her work aims to subvert, revert and pervert, to disrespect respectability, to take pleasure seriously, and to reclaim power. Her first child, GAZE BACK (Ethos Books, 2018; Singapore Literature Prize, 2020), is the lesbo trans-genre grimoire you never knew you needed.
VENUE: Projector X, Riverside Point
ADDRESS: 30 Merchant Road, #04-13, Singapore 058282
EVENT WEBSITE: Eventbrite (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
6 Dec 2022, 7pm-9pm, $11.56