• Vineet Kaul in Subliminal Interiors

    – Vineet Kaul’s poem “Untitled (Coz that’s what she is)” is now published in the April 2011 issue of Subliminal Interiors: Poetry & Photography eMagazine. Read it here. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. – –

  • Poetry OutLoud features Mary-Jane Newton | Wednesday 4th May 2011

    [click image to enlarge] Mary-Jane Newton’s new poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will feature, and there will also be an open mic session. Please email PoetryOutloud@gmail.com if you’d like a slot. Gauri Naurain will MC. ::::: Author’s bio: Mary-Jane Newton was…

  • When is love at its most intense?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: But Julian was clever and observant enough to see that love was at its most intense before it was reciprocated. ‘Love is a standing, or still growing light / And his first…

  • How does London make one feel?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: He felt unreal in London, as though his flesh and blood were in abeyance, as though he was a simulacrum of a boy, floating along Gower Street with its prim houses, dodging…

  • What is money?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: Money was freedom. Money was aesthetic. Money was Arab stallions, not rough cobs. Money was not being shouted at. […] Money was freedom. Money was life.  -p. 59 How poor can one…

  • Who is the best-loved child?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: The parents […] found it hard in practice to do what they believed in theory they should do, which was to love all the children equally. A man and a woman with…

  • Cha contributors in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

    – Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Find” and story “The Assistant”; Bernard Henrie’s poem “The Moon a Late Bus”; and O Thiam Chin’s story…

  • It is not enough to look at ‘the full picture’

    It is not enough to look at ‘the full picture’. We must look further. And this is why: . Take Quinten Massys’s notorious The Ugly Duchess, with her outsize jaw and porcine nose, too deluded to realise how monstrous she looks…

  • Two writers-in-residence positions (one local and one foreign) at Nanyang Technological University

    $1.5m programme to boost creative writing Year-long NTU faculty posts for local, foreign writers to hone craft A NEW chapter has opened for writers to pursue their craft. Two writers-in-residence positions at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) division of English will be…

  • [Royal Wedding Hyper Excited Edition] from Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time Newsletter 28/04/2011

    Text by Melvyn Bragg. Images and [insertions] by yours truly. ‘Union Jack’ or ‘Union Flag’ – say ‘Union Flag’ if you want to sound upper class. I saw London en fete.  Union Jacks, five abreast, went from Upper Regent Street,…