Category: my poetry
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This is the first version of “Remembering Li, a Tienanmen Activist”, published in Radius. WHOSE TIME IS NEXT? by Tammy Ho(Remembering Li Wangyang, a labour activist.) He is gone.His manner of deathdoes not add up. Who in this nationowns the time?Who has…
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “From My Window” is now published in Anomalous Press. There is also a recording of it. The second and third lines of the poem particularly caught my attention: ‘no squirrels fleeing from freezing / corners with their…
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Back in 2008, the partner introduced me to a song by The Lucksmiths, “The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco” (click here to listen to the song). This love song is pleasant to listen to and the story is sad…
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THE SOLILOQUY OF THE PAPER IPOD MAKER Thousands of years of devotion to the dead.Once newly-deceased, they receive everything:pig-tailed paper maids, Gucci bags and the latestgadgets, such as laptops and iPads. I createan impression of the real with inflammableand coloured…
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–The publication of my very short poem “The Final Straw” in the March 2011 issue of elimae reminded me of this day-trip to Winchester. Read on and you will see why. ::::: In March last year, we took a day…
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The poem alluded to in this post is now published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. There are two squirrels in a recent poem I wrote roaming in the garden outside the kitchen. I put them in the work not because…
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Picture courtesy of JP. WRITTEN IN SNOW –by t We extinguished two glasses of port,drained the lamp,transfigured from dressed to undressed. Both…
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In Fall 2008, Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter edited an anthology (3785 pages) featuring 3164 poets. McLaughlin and Carpenter did not ask any of the writers for permission to print their works. In fact, the poems attributed to the individual…
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One Imperative is on display in Shinjuku Station, Tokyo. The station is the world’s busiest in terms of people. – Three of my poems appear in this displayed issue of One Imperative. You can view/read the issue — themed “Play” —…
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The poem “Weekend in Paris (in four parts)” was written in November 2008, shortly after my birthday. These postcards were first published in Postal Poetry in February 2009. (See here, here, here, and here.) –
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“Envious Old Woman” is a stanza from “Confessions of a Woman, Seventy Years Old or Less” (published in Softblow). This postcard was published in Postal Poetry on 19 September, 2008. (See here.) –
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In May 2008, Florence Bamberger, a then second-year illustration student from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, contacted me and said she would like to illustrate some of my poems for her final-year project. In the…
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My little poem about waiting for the train at the Charing Cross Station one afternoon in March is published on the lovely A Handful of Stones today (Tuesday 4th May, 2010). According to editor Fiona Robyn, ‘a small stone is…
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