• Concelebratory Shoehorn Review – The Fourth Anniversary Issue

    The Fourth Anniversary Issue of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. It features poetry by Barry Ballard, Cheong Lee San, Kevin Prufer, Corey Cook, John Gallaher, Sandra McPherson and Kelly Norman Ellis; and photography of Milan Malovich…

  • Literary criticism doesn’t matter any more — Where did it all go wrong?

    In his article “So you ‘like’ Hamlet? Sorry, that’s not good enough” in today’s Times (see here), John Sutherland mentions that in the last years of Frank Kermode‘s life, one of the questions that vexed him was ‘Why doesn’t literary criticism…

  • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    In his latest book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, John Sutherland says this about Hamlet: “Every age interprets the play’s enigmas differently, sometimes wildly so (is Hamlet mad, enquired Oscar Wilde; or merely the critics of Hamlet?).…

  • Branch, Issue 4 is now live

    – The fourth issue of Branch Magazine, themed “Pop” and guest edited by Benny Lin (who also designed the cover), is now live. You can read and enjoy the new issue here.  – Branch is co-founded and co-edited by Gillian…

  • Ng Yi-Sheng and Cyril Wong in The Substation Love-Letters Project

    = Ng Yi-Sheng’s poem “How Buildings Make Love” and Cyril Wong’s “Eclipse” are now published in The Substation Love-Letters Project. Learn more about the project here.  – Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha. Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published…

  • Cyril Wong’s Satori Blues

    Cyril Wong’s single poem Satori Blues is available now from Books Actually and Select Books in Singapore, and Collected Works in Melbourne, Australia. More information at www.cyrilwong.org Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published in issue#1 of Cha. ==

  • Kristine Ong Muslim in Softblow

    – Four poems by Kristine Ong Muslim, “P is for Phyllis”, “The Gospel of Tango”, “Blink Once, Said the Little Town” and “The night he died” are now published in 2010’s last edition of Softblow. Read the poems here. –…

  • Wish You Were Here? Postcards from the Future

    “Wish You Were Here? Postcards from the Future” is an exhibition of fourteen digitally-transformed photomontages of recognisable London landmarks by Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones showing at the Museum of London. These images depict the possible impact of climate change…

  • Seriously?

    Colin Thubron’s Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) contains the following baffling passage: It has been said that the Chinese do not love. Observers of their family hierarchies have written that the only true tenderness exists between mother and son.…

  • Shakespeare’s curse

    Click image to enlarge. | Picture taken on Tuesday 28 December 2010 | Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare, To digg the dust encloased heare; Bleste be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be…