Category: Alvin Pang

  • 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Alvin Pang, All That is Left of the Sea: Selected Poems, Red River Press, 2025. 148 pgs. Emotions and poetry often operate by falling into sync with one another.…

    [REVIEW] “A Bubble of the Sea Holds the Cosmos and Its Caricature: Alvin Pang’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝐿𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎” by Kabir Deb
  • {Written by Jerome Lim, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alvin Pang, What Happened: Poems 1997–2017, Math Paper Press, 2018. 132 pgs. What Happened: Poems 1997–2017 is Alvin…

    [REVIEW] “Seemingly Undisputed Autonomy of the Lyric Ego: Alvin Pang’s 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐻𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑” by Jerome Lim
  • We are very happy to announce that selected poems from the ten-year history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (November 2007-October 2017) will be published in a special edition of the Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine, Voice & Verse, in February 2018.…

    Announcement: Collaboration with Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
  • W.F. Lantry W.F. Lantry‘s short story “Arboretum” is published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW.  || Read W.F. Lantry’s Cha profile.     ***** Lee Herrick Two poems by Lee Herrick, “Van Gogh Writes to Gaugin” and “Focus Theory”, are published in…

    New updates on 6 Cha contributors: W.F. Lantry, Lee Herrick, Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra
  • Ricky Garni Ricky Garni‘s poem “Sonata Eyes” (in three parts) is now available in Spinozablue. Do you think the poem has earned its last sentence ‘Now: back to love.’?  || Ricky Garni’s poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha.  ***** Alvin Pang Alvin…

  • Alvin Pang Alvin Pang’s When the Barbarians Arrive, a selection of works from his previous five collections, is now available from Arc Publications! The selection ranges from love poems to satirical writing. These are poems that are “wry and shrewd,…

  • – Alvin Pang’s What Gives Us Our Names (Math Papers Press, 2011), a collection of prose, is now available.  Learn more about the book here.  – Alvin Pang’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue…

  • – Read the essay “TERRA INCOGNITA” by Cha contributor Alvin Pang, featured on Civic Life. In it, “he writes of a geography of Singapore mapped through personal reminiscences.” – Alvin Pang’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs…

  • [click the image to go to the website] Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha. Alvin Pang’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 of the journal.

  • From their website: The annual NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music will feature upcoming writers and literary figures, interspersed with live musical performances from NUS music groups. Also included in the EPM will be the prize presentation for…

  • 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,…

  • Earlier, we unveiled the beautiful cover of our September 2010 issue here. Apart from “Wall in Namdaemun Market, Seoul”, we will also be publishing four other photographs (three from Singapore and one from China) by Alvin, whose poems were published…

  • Alvin Pang will be appearing in a literary event called “Poetry Mash!” in Helsinki on 28 August, 2010. More information here. – – Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha. – –

  • Cha contributor Alvin Pang has three poems, “the bridge”, “so many ways our fathers mark us” and “in transit”, featured in Asia Writes. – Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha. –

  • Come and join the Singapore Writers’ Festival this year and meet Cha contributors Alvin Pang, Cyril Wong, Daren Shiau, Leung Ping-kwan, Ng Yi-Sheng and O Thiam Chin. Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha. Cyril Wong’s…

  • Alvin Pang’s new poem “Thirteen ways of looking at a snowscape” is now published in the August 2009 issue of The Wolf. Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha.

  • The fifth issue of Mascara Literary Review (editors: Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill) is now live. Read a fine selection of poetry here. Cha contributors Michelle Cahill and Cyril Wong (here and here) also have review articles published in…

  • Alvin Pang has new work published in the new issue of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 (February 2008) of Cha.