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– We at Cha are very glad to announce that Donna Miscolta’s début novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced has recently been published by Hong Kong-based Signal 8 Press. On her website, Donna writes: ‘One of my stories, which happened…
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– Read an interview with Donna Miscolta, whose novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced has recently been published by Signal 8 Press. – Donna Miscolta’s fiction was published in Issue #11 of Cha. – –
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Quote of the day 8 “You never seem to be waiting for me, but we kept meeting at every turn of the paths. Behind every bush, at the foot of each statue, near every pond. It is as if it had…
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This post was written on September 12, 2009 On Friday, we went to the Duke of York’s Theatre to watch Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. It was the first time we had been to this theatre and it was an interesting experience. The theatre seemed…
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– The June 2011 issue of Asiatic is now live and we are very glad to see Cha‘s Reviews Editor Eddie Tay featured prominently in the edition. His latest poetry collection Mental Life of Cities is reviewed by Phillip Holden [pdf] whilst…
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W.F. Lantry’s short story “Chincoteague” is now published in Sea Stories. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –
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– Wena Poon’s “Maxine, Aoki, Beto and Me” and Blair Reeve’s “Send-off by Fire” are new published in the Summer 2011 issue (themed “Japan”) of Asia Literary Review.– Wena Poon’s poem “Copernicus for a Singaporean Grandmother” was published in Issue…
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– Vaughan Rapatahana’s “homo sacer” and Marc Vincenz’s “Cooking Duck for the Gestapo” are now published in the latest issue of Danse Macabre. Read them here. – Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry has been published in issue #8 of Cha. Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Mister Wang Baits Matter”, previously published in FRiGG, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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–– Changming Yuan’s poems “White Cells”, “Ischemia”, “X Missing: Provincial Proverb”, “Worldly Affairs (4): A Zeugma Sketch of Uncle Sam” and “SAWS: A Seasonal Poe” are now published in the latest issue of Wilderness House Literary Review. Read them here…
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– W.F. Lantry’s story “Dawn Redwood” is published in the latest issue of Wilderness House Literary Review. Read it here [pdf]. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. ––
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– Nicolette Wong’s “Focus” is now featured in #5 of Microw. Read it here [pdf] — the piece is on p. 5. – Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. ––
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– Sushma Joshi’s short story, “Betrayal”, first published in Issue #3 of Cha, is now translated into Japanese in Birds Singing in English. Both versions are available here. ––
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Last May, we went to the National Theatre for a revival of London Assurance, an early Victorian comedy by Dion Boucicault (1841). The play received consistently good notices and we can see why. Although far from a perfect play, the…
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p Marc Vincenz’s poem “Bicycle” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––
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David Nicholls opens his hypnotic One Day (2009) with the following quote from Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. How apt. That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine…
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– Read a conversion between Xu Xi, author of Habit of a Foreign Sky and Sybil Baker, author of Talismans, at Daily s-Press. – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. ––
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– W.F. Lantry’s The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press) is now available for pre-order! Read more here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –
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– Read Louie Crew’s two poems “Eschatology” and “Euthanatopsis” and David Sutherland’s poems “The Mathematics of Love”, “Attachment”, “Laundromat Dreams” and “Plastic Hammers” in the January/February 2011 issue of Munyori Literary Journal. – Three poems by Louie Crew were published…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Hunchback Rat of the Red Star Hotel”, first published in Cha, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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Kyoko Mori answers in One Bird (1995): I raise my left arm and begin to wave as the birds disappear over the neighbor’s houses, and my eyes ache from staring into the sky. I know they will be back among the…
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. The title of Allan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty (2004) is a reference to William Hogarth’s The Analysis of Beauty (1801): . the wavering line, which is a line more productive of beauty […], as in flowers, and other…
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Congratulations to Cha contributor Ouyang Yu, whose book The English Class is a 2011 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award winner ($20,000). Ouyang’s poem “Bad English” was published in Issue # 4 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.…
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “From My Window” is now published in Anomalous Press. There is also a recording of it. The second and third lines of the poem particularly caught my attention: ‘no squirrels fleeing from freezing / corners with their…
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–W.F. Lantry’s short story “Saaki” is now published in the fifth issue of Spilling Ink. Read it here.–W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––
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–– Read Marc Vincenz’s “Murdering the Chicken to Frighten the Monkeys: Part One” is in The Nervous Breakdown. If you know Hong Kong, you’ll find familiar things in the piece. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rust”, previously published by Danse Macabre, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Re-reading Eddie’s poem “Whose Woods These Are”, I am reminded of what Umberto Eco says in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods:1 There are two ways of walking through a wood. The first is to try one or several…
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The partner bought me Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife in 2009. The collection features works ostensibly narrated by the wives of well-known historical and fictional men, famous men reimagined as women, or women who were well-known in their own right. Some…
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