Category: Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  • 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Where Else. Jennifer Wong, Jason Eng Hun Lee, and Tim Tim Cheng (editors), Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, Verve Poetry Press, 2023.…

    [REVIEW] “Not Just a Fusion of Leftover Cultures: A Review of 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒” by Aerith Au
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY There is never just another day in our lives. The moon will glow strawberry bright on June 4th, on an Earth where only a few humans have tasted strawberries. Skeletal thousands die today and every…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • 📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…

    [REVIEW] “Lim’s Limes Call To Mind…” by Dean A. F. Gui
  • 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
  • – The Autumn 2011 issue of Asia Literary Review, themed “Food”, is now available. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s essay “Scavenging on Gold Mountain: of Food and Poetry”, Wena Poon’s story “Fideuà” and Reid Mitchell’s poems “Mouth Purses for a Kiss”,…

  • Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong and Shirley Geok-lin Lim have works published in the October 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Yew Leong’s story “Gross Domestic Happiness” and article “The Mise En Abyme in Byatt’s The Matisse Stories”…

  • Cha contributors have works featured in the latest issue (June 2009) of Asiatic: Journal of English  Language and Literature. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s article “Writing for Asian Children: History, Fantasy, and Identity“(PDF), Agnes Lam’s review (PDF) of Singapore Literature in…

  • “Diasporas: Cultural Transfer” is an international workshop organised by the Faculty of Arts at The University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. This is the second in a series of international workshops bringing together scholars from…

  • Mascara #4 (editors: Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill) is now live with poetry by Peter Boyle, Tenzin Tsundue, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sean Singer, Francesca Haig, Indran Amirthanayagam, Kylie Rose, Jessika Tong, Michael Sharkey, Jal Nicholl, Liam Ferney, Debbie Lim,…