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– Sridala Swami’s “Dancing to Political Songs” and Priyadarshi Patnaik’s “Puri Town: Sketch no 27” are now published in DesiLit Magazine. – Sridala Swami‘s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha. Priyadarshi Patnaik’s photograph “Flight of the Toads” is the cover image of…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “The River, Once”, previously published in Ducts Journal and Poets for Living Waters, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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– The following Cha contributors have new creative works published in the May 2011 issue of Mascara Literary Review. -Nicholas Y.B. Wong: Poetry (“Walk With Words”, “Mark Twain as an Anti-Anti Smoker”) -Sam Byfield: Poetry (“Split Earth”, “Escaping the Central…
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Margaret Hui Lian Lim Today we heard the sad news that Cha contibutor Margaret Lim had passed away. Our thoughts and best wishes are with her family. We know Margaret through her writings, which will continue to inspire us. ––
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Artist: Annysa Ng Description: Fine Tea articles may be on any poems, stories or artwork/photography featured in the history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. To see the kind of analyses we have published, please visit http://finecha.wordpress.com. However, you do not…
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–– Marc Vincenz’s poem “King Georgy and the Golden Helicopter” is now published in Danse Macabre. Visit this page and scroll down. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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– Three poems by Changming Yuan, “Another Difference”, “Worldly Affairs (1): The Bare Truth about USA” and “Worldly Affairs (6): Today’s Special” are now published in Radius: From the Centre to the Edge. Radius is an online literary journal dedicated…
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– Kristine Ong Muslim’s poem sequence “The Strangers” (which contains fifteen strangers – fifteen poems) is now published in Eye to the Telescope. The editor notes: Kristine Ong Muslim’s sequence of poems that, taken together, begin to paint a disturbing…
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s humorous and thought-provoking poem “25 Anatomical Facts about Poets” is now published in the latest issue of Press 1. Read the piece here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –
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…and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee . – Donne In the review article “Hubbub”, Nicholas Spice answers: [T]he most poignant encounters with music are inadvertent and unplanned. Church bells heard across the fields…
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We can only see the Sistine Chapel for the first time once, and we can never be surprised twice by the outcome of a poem or a novel, the unexpected modulations of a piece of Haydn or the wild ramifications…
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A Scene from “As You Like It” by Walter Howell Deverell If it be true that good wine needsno bush, ’tis true that a good play needs noepilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,and good plays prove the…
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– Ocean Vuong’s poem “Self-Portrait as Jeffrey Dahmer” is now published in Vol. 3 of Vinyl Poetry. Dahmer was ‘a notorious serial killer and cannibal’. – – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated…
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong has joined the Drunken Boat team as a Poetry Reader. See here for more information. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. ––
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– Cha contributors Kristine Ong Muslim and Nicholas Y.B. Wong have new works published in the latest edition of Prime Number. Read Kristine’s “Knife Tower” here. Nicholas’s “Self Portrait”, which was inspired by Louise Glück’s work, is also read by…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “She Thinks I Look Like Lenin” is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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– Vineet Kaul’s “Brainwave v/s Brain Freeze: A Comparative Study” is now published in nether / fortnight 8. Read the work here [pdf]. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. ––
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– Vineet Kaul’s poem “Untitled (Coz that’s what she is)” is now published in the April 2011 issue of Subliminal Interiors: Poetry & Photography eMagazine. Read it here. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. – –
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[click image to enlarge] Mary-Jane Newton’s new poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will feature, and there will also be an open mic session. Please email PoetryOutloud@gmail.com if you’d like a slot. Gauri Naurain will MC. ::::: Author’s bio: Mary-Jane Newton was…
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A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: But Julian was clever and observant enough to see that love was at its most intense before it was reciprocated. ‘Love is a standing, or still growing light / And his first…
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A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: He felt unreal in London, as though his flesh and blood were in abeyance, as though he was a simulacrum of a boy, floating along Gower Street with its prim houses, dodging…
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A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: Money was freedom. Money was aesthetic. Money was Arab stallions, not rough cobs. Money was not being shouted at. […] Money was freedom. Money was life. -p. 59 How poor can one…
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A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: The parents […] found it hard in practice to do what they believed in theory they should do, which was to love all the children equally. A man and a woman with…
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– Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Find” and story “The Assistant”; Bernard Henrie’s poem “The Moon a Late Bus”; and O Thiam Chin’s story…
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It is not enough to look at ‘the full picture’. We must look further. And this is why: . Take Quinten Massys’s notorious The Ugly Duchess, with her outsize jaw and porcine nose, too deluded to realise how monstrous she looks…
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$1.5m programme to boost creative writing Year-long NTU faculty posts for local, foreign writers to hone craft A NEW chapter has opened for writers to pursue their craft. Two writers-in-residence positions at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) division of English will be…
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Text by Melvyn Bragg. Images and [insertions] by yours truly. ‘Union Jack’ or ‘Union Flag’ – say ‘Union Flag’ if you want to sound upper class. I saw London en fete. Union Jacks, five abreast, went from Upper Regent Street,…
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[Click image to enlarge] Papa Osumbal’s poetry was published in issue #4 and issue #10 of Cha. His poems “At Hac Sa Beach, Macau” and “A Bum’s Demise” were discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. ––
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– Marc Vincenz’s memoir “Siberia or Bust: Big Balls and Eight Million Dollars” is now published in The Nervous Breakdown. Read the piece here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Old World”, previously published in Caper Literary Journal, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––
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