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– As mentioned previously on this blog, Nabina Das’s “Redness” (read it here) won the first prize in the poetry category in the Unisun Publication’s writing Competition 2009-2010. Read The Hindu‘s report of the prize-giving ceremony here.–Nabina Das’s poetry was…
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Warning: the material below may disturb some. Angela Carter (1878 1978) in The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History answers: Many pornographic novels are written in the first person as if by a woman, or use a woman as the…
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– 0 The generous giver’s identity has been revealed. Thank you!
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On Tuesday I saw the excellent Blue Valentine in the West End. A lot has already been written about Derek Cianfrance’s film and its unconventional structure, which cuts between the beginning and the end of the central love story. I don’t…
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Maybe one day. “A beach in Saint-Malo, a harbour town, in Brittany, but a little closer to my part of Brittany (but still not exactly there). August 2005.”
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Image cover © Emily Richardson 2008 (Still from the film Cobra Mist) Design: Sandrine Duvillier. Alistair Noon has new work published in the début issue of The Black Herald. Check out this new magazine here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue…
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Laura Roberts of Black Heart Magazine interviews Branch Magazine editor Gillian Sze. Read the article here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –
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Eddie Tay, Reviews Editor of Cha, is interviewed by Sapling, a weekly newsletter about the world of independent publishing published by Black Lawrence Press. Each issue of Sapling is packed with useful information including a literary contest currently accepting submissions;…
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– John Guillory in “It Must Be Abstract” has the following to say about ‘pleasures’: Complex pleasures may be mixtures of pleasure and pain, but complex pleasures are only preferable to simple ones when it is complex pleasures that we…
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Last night, we went to watch The King’s Speech in the local cinema. The house was full, even for the ten-o’clock showing. I have liked Colin Firth since his charming turn as Darcy in Andrew Davies’s 1995 BBC adaptation of…
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Reader, we didn’t go to Canterbury. We went to Brighton instead. There, we saw the ocean. The beach reminded us of some nicer Hong Kong beaches, where we went on occasion. The seagulls flew freely. The lovely chubby kids fell on the pebbles,…
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. … from the TV seriesNorthern Exposure: . Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from…
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UPDATE: READER, HE HAS BEEN FOUND. THANK YOU, ALL. – We have a new Fine Tea article up, which is an analysis of Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions”. Someone called “Roy” left us a comment and I am curious. If you…
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– Read Jennifer Wong’s review of The Surreal House, now available on the Tate website. The book is edited by Jane Alison (Senior Curator of Barbican Art Gallery) and designed by Angus Hyland. It includes by Jane Alison, Mary Ann Caws,…
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–From their website: The Writing Machine Collective 4th edition (Jan 14-30, 2011) promises to be a fresh and thrilling showcase of crème de la crème local media arts talents. 15 artists come together to offer us 12 unique works that…
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– It’s a delight to read Daniel Bowman Jr.’s personal essay “Dancing in Fields of Wheat and Chaff” about The Glen Workshop, now up at Art House America. The essay ends with this beautiful image: I tried to dance. Awkward and…
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Three poems by Lyn Lifshin, “Even if you’ve no interest in another”, “Old Boyfriends” and “The Way You Know” are now featured at amphibi.us. Read them here. –– Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha – –
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In 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know (2010), John Sutherland uses Andrew Marvell’s poem “To his Coy Mistress” to illustrate the idea of ‘double bind’ (pp. 132-135). Had we but world enough timethis coyness, lady, were no crime. […] But…
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There are some wonderful poems in the Winter 2010 issue of Asia Literary Review (this is their “China’ issue) and it is interesting to see that many of them feature flora imagery.1 Landscape Above Zero | Bei Dao | “It was…
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In October last year, we went to see Stephen Sondheim’s 1994 musical Passion (based on Tarchett’s epistolary novel Fosca, written in 1869) at the Donmar Warehouse (as part of the Sondheim at 80 season).1 I am surprised how this production still lingers on…
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– We are very pleased to announce that Cha contributors W.F. Lantry (Jewel Tones), Jason Lee (Beds in the East and Other Poems) and Ling Hoi Ching (A Seed and a Plant) are three of the five finalists for the inaugural HKU…
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– Nabina Das’s poem “Goodbye to Ballimaran” is now published in The Caravan. Read it here. – Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. –
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In the final paragraph of his London: The Biography (2001), Peter Ackroyd answers: [W]hen it is asked how London can be a triumphant city when it has so many poor, and so many homeless, it can only be suggested that…
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– Nabina Das’s three poems “Tracks to the inner city”, “Meditation sans Prayer” and “Seven-Day Window” are now published in Muse India. Read them here. – Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. –
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In a chapter about London’s sexy life (Chapter 41 “You sexy thing”), Peter Ackroyd relates some of Boswell’s sexual encounters. Boswell’s diary of street life in 1762 provides an account of sexual favours currently on offer. On the evening of…
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Peter Ackroyd in London: The Biography (2001) answers (see below). What is Hong Kong’s colour, I wonder? Red is London’s colour. The cabs of the early nineteenth century were red. The pillar boxes are red. The telephone boxes were, until…
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The Fourth Anniversary Issue of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. It features poetry by Barry Ballard, Cheong Lee San, Kevin Prufer, Corey Cook, John Gallaher, Sandra McPherson and Kelly Norman Ellis; and photography of Milan Malovich…
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In his article “So you ‘like’ Hamlet? Sorry, that’s not good enough” in today’s Times (see here), John Sutherland mentions that in the last years of Frank Kermode‘s life, one of the questions that vexed him was ‘Why doesn’t literary criticism…
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In his latest book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, John Sutherland says this about Hamlet: “Every age interprets the play’s enigmas differently, sometimes wildly so (is Hamlet mad, enquired Oscar Wilde; or merely the critics of Hamlet?).…
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