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–Xu Xi creates a music playlist that relates to her latest book, Habit of a Foreign Sky, a finalist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. Visit the largehearted boy website to learn more. –– Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published…
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“You Have Never Written Better” by Benjamin Markovits |As Byron himself remarked, you couldn’t expect any verse to be all good.| “Some Sort of a Solution” by Charles Simic |he needed his small circle of friends, for they were his…
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Today, my friend sent me a smiley fox:
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“You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel” by Mark Greif |‘Think of me as a boy,’ the woman begs.| “Hysterical Vigour” by Frank Kermode |The title of this novel comes from the Chinese national anthem: Arise, ye who refuse…
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“At the Movies” by Michael Wood — A discussion of No Country for Old Man (directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) |It says he doesn’t understand what’s happening, of course; but it also says he doesn’t believe he doesn’t…
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W.F. Lantry’s sonnet “Another Look” is published in the Fall 2010 issue of Comment . The poem won the first place in Comment Poetry Contest. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – –
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W.F. Lantry’s poems “In Mem” and “An Unread Omen” are now published in Verse Wisconsin. Read them here.– –W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––
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Branch Magazine, edited by Cha contributors Gillian Sze and Roberutsu, is calling for submissions for its fourth issue, themed “POP”. More information here.– –
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“On Radio 4” by Peter Campbell |Not all interesting things are beautiful and not all beautiful ones are interesting.| “Did she go willingly” by Marina Warner |was [Helen] abducted by Paris or did she go willingly?| |John Lyly gives Helen…
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Cha contributors Lyn Lifshin and W.F. Lantry have new poems published in the Fall 2010 issue of The Innisfree Poetry Journal. Read Lyn’s “I think of my grandfather”, “If my grandmother could have written a postcard to the sister left…
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W.F. Lantry’s poem “Letter to Susan” is now published in Now Culture. Read the poem here.–W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––
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W.F. Lantry’s three poems poems “Nightbird”, “Carmina Burana” and “Five Years” are now published in Soundzine. You can read them here and listen to his reading. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – –
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W.F. Lantry’s poem “Fritillary” is published in the October 2010 issue of Literal Latté. Read it here. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – –
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This post was originally written on 24th January, 2010. When we were having dinner with our friend Jonathan (also the prose guest editor of the second anniversary issue of Cha) in a Sichuan restaurant in Soho, London (by the way,…
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Congratulations to Cha‘s regular guest editor Royston Tester! His short story “Carnaval”, which is set in the Brazilian Amazon, received an Honourable Mention in The Antigonish Review‘s 40th Anniversary Literary Competition (TAR 40), and will be published in their fall…
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Parts of this post were first written on 28th January and 1st May, 2010. Updated and expanded on 18th November, 2010.Adam and Eve This is an image from the wonderful Ebstorf Mappamundi, a Medieval European map of the world created in…
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– J. A. Tyler’s “Variations of a Brother War (Soldiering Triptych)” is now published in Dark Sky Magazine. Read the piece here.––J. A. Tyler’s fiction was published in issue #1 of Cha.––
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Billy Collins’s poem “Memorizing “The Sun Rising” by John Donne” is now published in the November 2010 issue of Poetry. Read it here. – – Billy Collins’s four Asian-themed poems were published in issue #5 of Cha. – –
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William Empson (1961) answers: Line references are to the nearest factor of five, because factor of ten are usually given in the margin of the text, and the eye can then find the place without further calculation. The show of…
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A.D. Nuttall (2003) answers: The word, I think, connotes a quality of completeness: at the lowest level, complete literacy (never a colon where a comma should be); complete, though not redundant documentation; complete accuracy even with reference to matters not…
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This post was originally written on 5th March, 2010. Last week, we went to see the West End transfer of Enron. The play, which was written by the promising young playwright Lucy Prebble and directed by the current it-boy of…
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Congratulations to Ocean, whose first poetry chapbook Burnings is now available from Sibling Rivalry Press. You can purchase a copy here. – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of…
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“People often ask why I write in English, and I finally just decided, ‘I guess this is just the language I use’,” she said. “But I keep trying to put Chinese into my English, and that’s something that I try…
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– Nabina Das and Rohith Sundararaman will appear in the Poetry with Prakriti Poetry Festival this December. From the festival’s website: Poetry with Prakriti is a two-week long festival of poetry held annually in Chennai to coincide with the famed Chennai…
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Parts of this post were first written in March this year (9th March and 11th March). Revised on 17th November, 2010. Recently, I read Melanie Benjamin‘s Alice I Have Been (2009), which is a fictional account of the life of…
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PROVERSE HONG KONG (PUBLISHERS OF PROSE AND VERSE) WILL HOLD A WINNER’S RECEPTION AND LAUNCH FIVE BOOKS ON TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER -name of event: international Proverse Prize for unpublished writing Winners’ Reception & Book Launch -date of event: Tuesday 23 November 2010.…
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This post was originally written on 6th March, 2010. One good thing living in London is that you can just take fancy and go to any number of museums, galleries, theatres whenever you want. Last Sunday, we went to the…
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THE HONG KONG WRITERS’ CIRCLE NOVEMBER WORKSHOP – THE CLICHE: 29 November, 2010 Just Write workshop will focus on the cliche, some of the ones you hate, some of the ones we hate and some of the ones that were used…
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Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “Maintaining Control” is published in the Fall 2010 issue of Blue Fifth Review. Read it here. ––Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.––
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