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– The fourth issue of Branch Magazine, themed “Pop” and guest edited by Benny Lin (who also designed the cover), is now live. You can read and enjoy the new issue here. – Branch is co-founded and co-edited by Gillian…
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= Ng Yi-Sheng’s poem “How Buildings Make Love” and Cyril Wong’s “Eclipse” are now published in The Substation Love-Letters Project. Learn more about the project here. – Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha. Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published…
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Cyril Wong’s single poem Satori Blues is available now from Books Actually and Select Books in Singapore, and Collected Works in Melbourne, Australia. More information at www.cyrilwong.org Cyril Wong’s poetry has been published in issue#1 of Cha. ==
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– Four poems by Kristine Ong Muslim, “P is for Phyllis”, “The Gospel of Tango”, “Blink Once, Said the Little Town” and “The night he died” are now published in 2010’s last edition of Softblow. Read the poems here. –…
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“Wish You Were Here? Postcards from the Future” is an exhibition of fourteen digitally-transformed photomontages of recognisable London landmarks by Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones showing at the Museum of London. These images depict the possible impact of climate change…
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Colin Thubron’s Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) contains the following baffling passage: It has been said that the Chinese do not love. Observers of their family hierarchies have written that the only true tenderness exists between mother and son.…
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Click image to enlarge. | Picture taken on Tuesday 28 December 2010 | Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare, To digg the dust encloased heare; Bleste be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be…
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[Click the images to enlarge.] From Issue 1 [Link] From Issue 1 [Link] From Issue 1 [Read the entire poem] From Issue 2 [Read the entire poem] From Issue 3 [Read the entire poem] From Issue 9 [Read the entire…
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Last December, we went to see Alan Bennett’s new play, The Habit of Art, which is about an imaginary meeting between W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten (this is in a way similar to Adam Fould’s novel The Quickening Maze, which…
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– Two new poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, “This is an Error” and “The Hour”, are now published in nether. You can download the PDF here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. ––
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Namesby Wendy Cope She was Eliza for a few weeksWhen she was a baby —Eliza Lily. Soon it changed to Lil. Later she was Miss Steward in the baker’s shopAnd then ‘my love’, ‘my darling’, Mother. Widowed at thirty, she…
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Paul Kennedy in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) answers: Of all the civilizations of premodern times, none appeared more advanced, none felt more superior, than that of China. Its considerable population, 100-130 million compared with Europe’s…
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– Phill Provance’s poem “Hard to Say” is now published in the twenty-fourth issue of Arsenic Lobster poetry journal. – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize…
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–Phill Provance will be reading at the River Read Reading Series on 9 January 2011. Check out the details here. – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was nominated for a Pushcart…
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Author photo © Clare Jephcott Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution is a new chapbook by Alistair Noon. It records the moment when the Chinese People’s Congress recognised private property, and carries the reader forward into a very particular and…
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According to Nicholas Ostler in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): The online communities that use languages other than English have grown meteorically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. From 2000 to 2009,…
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On Tuesday, we went to see Alan Ayckbourn‘s Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre. Jeff lined up early in the morning to take advantage of the NT’s day ticket policy.1 They hold back a number of tickets to sell on the day,…
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“Champaign and cinnamon candle”. Photo courtesy of E & S On Christmas Eve, two friends visited us and we spent a joyous afternoon and evening together, eating, drinking, chatting and playing games. Happy times. The picture above was taken by them. May all our…
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Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): The decline of English, when it begins, will not seem of great moment.International English is a lingua franca, and by its nature, a lingua franca…
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Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): Chinese, like all the great languages of the modern world excepting English and French, remains very much a localized language in eastern and southeastern Asia,…
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– “Truth is in my heart, and in my breast there is neither craft nor guile. — The Egyptian Book of the Dead. –Today we went to the British Museum to see the Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the…
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–– We are very happy to announce that Alice Tsay has officially joined the Cha editorial team as Staff Reviewer. Alice has reviewed for the journal regularly since Issue #7 and her pieces are always insightful and well-written. It is…
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WHAT DID YOU WRITE ME? –by Reid Mitchell Fearing poisonI hired an official tasterto read my email. He hung himself today.
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– I am very happy to say that Nick Admussen’s first chapbook Movie Plots has been published by Epiphany Editions in New York. Movie Plots is “a series of disorientingly absorbing prose poems that take thirty different film genres as points of departure for riffs…
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– Kevin Minh Allen of Lantern Review has written a review of Ocean Vuong’s first chapbook of poetry Burnings. You can read the review here.–Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the…
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– W.F. Lantry’s “Pilgrimage” is now featured on Big Other. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. ––
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– The second edition of >Language >Place blog carnival is now live and is hosted by Nicolette Wong on her blog Meditations in an Emergency. According to Nicolette: The second edition of > Language > Place blog carnival features over…
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– Toh Hsien Min was interviewed by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé about his book Means To An End. The interview was published in the June 2010 issue of Prick of the Spindle. Read it here. – Also read a review of…
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–– Steve Wing’s photograph “reticulation” is published in the new issue of Blue Print Review. – – Steve Wing’s photography was published in issue #7 of Cha. ––
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