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[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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[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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[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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[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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{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…
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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…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Ho Chee Lick and Anne Lee Tzu Pheng, Common Life: Drawings and Poems, Ethos Books, 2018. 191 pgs.❀ Elaine Woo, Put Your Hand in Mine, Signature Editions, 2019. 91 pgs. Each time I…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Simon Wickhamsmith (translator), Suncranes and Other Stories: Modern Mongolian Short Fiction, Columbia University Press, 2021. 296 pgs. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt international travel, entry into Mongolia remains…
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Translation Editor Lucas Klein‘s note: Brian Holton’s translations of Li Bai are new in at least three senses: he completed them recently; they will be new to readers familiar only with the Tang poet’s “greatest hits” or anthology pieces; and they…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies, Penguin Random House, 2019. 240 pgs. Watching Olympic diving is agonisingly tense, even as I sit at my laptop in London to watch, 9,500km…
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