• W.F. Lantry wins the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize

    Congratulations to W.F. Lantry, who won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize with his poem “Kiste”. From W.F.’s website: (Jerusalem, Israel) – W.F. Lantry of Washington, DC won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize sponsored by the Lindberg…

  • The Hurt Locker

    I was gripped from the opening seconds of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker about an elite Army bomb squad whose main job is to defuse roadside bombs. The film uses suspense masterfully to suggest the tension and fear of the…

  • Lantern Review reviews Eddie Tay’s The Mental Life of Cities

    – Henry W. Leung, reviewer for Lantern Review, has written a review of Eddie Tay’s latest collection of poetry The Mental Life of Cities. You can read the review here. Henry also wrote a review of the current edition of…

  • Mrs. Wix and Mademoiselle Leclair

    “It was on account of these things that mamma got her for such low pay, really for nothing: so much, one day when Mrs. Wix had accompanied her into the drawing-room and left her, the child heard one of the…

  • Nabina Das and Steve Wing in Full of Crow

    – – Nabina Das and Steve Wing have new works published in the Winter 2010 issue of Full of Crow. Read Nabna’s “A Face Like Ours”, “Airborne, Words Can Sing” and “Utterance From the Tongue of an Urn” and view…

  • Gents

    Baozi Inn, ChinatownSaturday 4th Decemer, 2010, 12:30pm

  • The Ghost

    –The Ghost is based on the novel by Robert Harris of the same title. We thought it was a fine old-fashioned thriller; it reminded one of both Hitchcock and the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. Directed by Roman Polanski, the…

  • Adult guide to London

    Seen at the South Kensington tube station on a Saturday afternoon

  • Haiku competition

    From their website: Times Are Tough; Talk Is Cheap At a recent poetry reading, a poet gave a five-minute introduction to a haiku. Absurdities not being lost on us, we began generating our own haiku responses. We invite you to…

  • Leung Ping-Kwan’s Amblings

    Leung Ping-Kwan’s amblings will be launched in Macau on 18th December, 2010. Learn more about the launch here. ––Leung Ping-Kwan’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.––