• Mary-Jane Newton in Eyewear

    – Mary-Jane Newton’s poems “Poem No 165” and “Xue-Li” are now featured on Eyewear. Read them here. – Mary-Jane Newton’s poetry and reviews were published in Issue 13 of Cha. –

  • Mary-Jane Newton’s Of Symbols Misused

    – Cha contributor Mary-Jane Newton‘s first poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will be launched at the Proverse Hong Kong event on 9 March. Would you like to join? There are still a few tickets left for the independent Proverse event…

  • Cha Facebook Page

    cover artist: annysa ng Dear All My apologies for bombarding you with messages of late. If you happen to be on Facebook, please consider supporting our Facebook page. We used to have a fairly successful “Group” but unfortunately Facebook has…

  • Winning Winchester

    –The publication of my very short poem “The Final Straw” in the March 2011 issue of elimae reminded me of this day-trip to Winchester. Read on and you will see why. ::::: In March last year, we took a day…

  • CHA Issue#13 Goes Live

    Click HERE to read the February 2011 issue of Cha. The February 2011 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Arthur Leung (poetry) and Reid Mitchell (prose) for returning to the post of guest editors…

  • ASIAN CHA Issue#13 Editorial

    originally posted here When You Live with a Poet When you live with a poet, you know exactly which three-year-old work she means when she asks, “Did you like the enjambment in the second stanza?” When you live with a…

  • Reverse déjà vu (alert: contains strong language)

    The poem alluded to in this post is now published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. There are two squirrels in a recent poem I wrote roaming in the garden outside the kitchen. I put them in the work not because…

  • You sometimes have to make a mess before you can get it to go right

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the logic of Science in this episode of Beautiful Minds. The following is my transcription: Way back in the Middle Ages, they thought that planets went round the sun in circles. Perfect circles. They had…

  • NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music 26 Feb. 2011

    From their website: The annual NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music will feature upcoming writers and literary figures, interspersed with live musical performances from NUS music groups. Also included in the EPM will be the prize presentation for…

  • W. F. Lantry in Verse Wisconsin

    – W. F. Lantry’s poem about Wisconsin Protests, “Vision”, can be read here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –