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. J.H. Martin’s new poem “Nec Spe Nec Metu” is featured in Mad Swirl. Also featured are “Holograms are We”, “An Inch of Jade”, “Autumn Leaves” and “Hasta La Primavera”. You can read them all here. – – J.H. Martin’s…
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– Read Sam Byfield’s essay “China and Australia: toward cooperative aid delivery” in East Asia Forum. – Read Sam Byfield’s Cha profile. – –
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– Jerusalem, the Olivier- and Tony-award winning play written and directed by Jez Butterworth and Ian Rickson respectively, was arguably the best play I have seen in London: wickedly funny, timely and featuring a great performance by Mark Rylance as Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…
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– Cha contributors and readers might be interested in contributing to the anthology Eastern Heathens, which will include fiction inspired by existing Asian folklore. You can see some information below. Please also visit the anthology website and facebook page. Editors…
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– – Congratulations to Robert Masterson. His poignant poem “The Distance Between These Things” wins Fleeting Magazine’s Best Short Writing in the World 2011. Robert will receive a year’s subscription to Stack, a personalised monthly selection of the best independent…
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[Click image to enlarge] [Facebook event page] –– Matthew Wong’s photography sequence will be featured in the fourth anniversary issue of Cha, due out in November 2011. ––
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– Sumana Roy’s poem “Desert” is now published in Guernica. Read it here. – Sumana Roy’s poem was published in Issue #14 of Cha. ––
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0 The quotes below are from Benjamin Markovits’s Childish Loves (2011). Some are from the ‘contemporary’ section and some from the 18thC and 19thC pastiche. Can you tell? (In my day maybe half the English department, and a quarter of the history…
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. One of Alistair Noon’s translations of Osip Mandelstam is now online at the October 2011 issue of Blackbox Manifold. Read “To the German Language” here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner:…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Bicycle”, previously published in Stirring, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Ira Sukrungruang’s sex story “Longevity of Art” is now published in the new online literary magazine, Cedars. Read it here. – Ira Sukrungruang’s poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha. ––
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– “Museum for Disappearing Buildings” as a storage vault for discarded architecture. The drawings describe a funereal chapel, where miniatures of “[e]ach disappearing building, even the most unprepossessing” are exhibited (Brodsky and Utkin 1984: n.p.). This project seems to call for a memorial for…
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Rene Magritte’s “The False Mirror” William Henry Davies in his poem “Leisure” answers: Leisureby W.H. Davies WHAT is this life if, full of careWe have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long…
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–Vineet Kaul has two poems in The Scarlet Sound: “Wording the Unspoken” and “How The End Begins”.–Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.––
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– Nicolette Wong’s flash fiction “As Pleat” is in the Flash Special of Blue Fifth Review. – Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. – –
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. Eight poems by W.F. Lantry are now published in the September/October 2011 issue of THIS Literary Journal. They are “Quatorze Juillet”, “Sumeria”, “Sandhi”, “Manzanita”, “Revision”, “Flow”, “Five Years” and “On Possibilities”. You can also read Bill’s artist statement here…
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– The sixth issue of Salt’s Horizon Review is now live and four Cha contributors have new works in it. Read W.F. Lantry’s “Periplus”, Alistair Noon’s “From Earth Records”, Todd Swift’s “Hunting Party” and “Old Master” and Wena Poon’s “Sanjay…
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– Jennifer Wong’s poem “Love” is published in the September 2011 issue of Streetcake. Download the PDF and read the poem, which is on the final page. – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She…
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– Five new poems by W.F. Lantry, “Prime”, “Gathering Flowers”, “Physick”, “Lectio” and “Waking Dream”, are now published in the Fall 2011 issue of The Tower Journal. Read them here. with each new daylight, praise what can’t be seenbut only…
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– Read a review of Gillian Sze’s latest poetry collection, The Anatomy of Clay, at Poetry Quebec. There is also a review in Winnipeg Free Press. –Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––
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– The Autumn 2011 issue of Asia Literary Review, themed “Food”, is now available. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s essay “Scavenging on Gold Mountain: of Food and Poetry”, Wena Poon’s story “Fideuà” and Reid Mitchell’s poems “Mouth Purses for a Kiss”,…
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We are very happy to announce the winners for our first Fine Tea Competition 2011. First Prize £25.00Rumjhum Biswas discusses Sumana Roy’s “Love: Made in China”, published in “The China Issue” (July 2011). Second Prize £15.00Marybeth Rua-Larsen discusses Maysa Vang’s “Between…
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Looks like our internet service provider has been hacked and so our website is down. Hopefully they will be able to resolve the problem soon. We don’t want to give the hacker too much attention, but at least we can…
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“Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” (1932) -Picasso ––– The HugBy Thom Gunn It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached…
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– DEADLINE: 15 December, 2011. Midnight, wherever you are. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its February/March 2012 issue (Issue # 16). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…
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According to Dictionary.com, there are nineteen words in the English language that have no perfect rhyme. The Nineteen Words angst n., a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish. bulb n. any round, enlarged part, esp. at the end of a…
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–– Read Marc Vincenz’s “Wild Goose Chasing, or the Quest for the Golden Penis” is in The Nervous Breakdown. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Startwisted,”, previously published in THIS Literary Journal, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Suzie Lam Scorns the Happy Marriage Dating Agency”, previously published in Stirring, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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