• LOVE: Michael O’Sullivan

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Michael O’Sullivan read an excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens and surprised and delighted the audience…

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  • LOVE: Chris Song

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Chris Song read poems by e.e. cummings, Anna Akhmatova, and Gavin Ewart. ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY…

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  • LOVE: Jason S Polley

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Jason S Polley read two poems by Wallace Stevens—both are available in the public domain. PHASES I.There’s…

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  • LOVE: Ting Guo

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Yi-Fu Tuan’sSpace and Place:The Perspective of Experience an excerpt [Place is security, space is freedom.] People tend to…

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  • LOVE: Oliver Farry

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Oliver Farry read from Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, a passage relating the funeral of Patroclus…

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  • LOVE: Heidi Huang

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’sLittle Prince, Chapter 21 L E S S O N It was then that the…

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  • [EXCLUSIVE] LOVE: Ilaria Maria Sala

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho First performed at LOVE: A Reading, these are original poems by Ilaria Maria Sala. We are grateful…

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  • LOVE: Lian-Hee Wee

    [Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Lian-Hee Wee read excerpts from Ruth Smythers’s Sex Tips for Husbands & Wives from 1894 and Timothy…

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  • [REVIEW] “Myriad Powers of Words: Duo Duo’s 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛” by Liang Luo

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Duo Duo (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Words as Grain: New and Selected Poems. Yale University Press, 2021. 246 pgs. What follows can only be read as an impressionistic fleeting encounter between a…

    [REVIEW] “Myriad Powers of Words: Duo Duo’s 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛” by Liang Luo

  • [EXCLUSIVE] Four New Translations of Noriko Ibaragi by Andrew Houwen and Peter Robinson

    Andrew Houwen’s note: The Japanese poet Kazue Shinkawa has described Noriko Ibaragi (1926-2006) as the “big sister” of post-war Japanese poetry. Ibaragi had her poetry first published at the age of 19, at a time when published women poets were…

    [EXCLUSIVE] Four New Translations of Noriko Ibaragi by Andrew Houwen and Peter Robinson