Category: Yew Leong Lee

  • – Yew Leong Lee’s translation of Liu Qingban’s “The One Who Picks Flowers” is published in the English insert (titled Peregrine) of the sixth issue of Chutzpah Magazine. Peregrine features English translations of selected pieces of the Chinese content. You can download…

  • – The January 2012 issue of Asymptote is now available and it features work by Cha contributors Lucas Klein, Xi Chuan and Lee Yew Leong (editor of Asymptote).  Read “Beast”, “The Distance” and “Poison” from Xi Chuan’s forthcoming Notes on…

    Cha contributors in Asymptote
  • The October 2011 issue of  Asymptote is now live. It features Murakami, Milosz and Szirtes, Lydia Davis’s first Dutch translations, essays by Dale Peck, various Burmese poets, Piyush Daiya, primers on Croatian novels and Eileen Chang, their first English Poetry…

  • The July issue of  Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniṣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by Tomaž Šalamun, the philosophy of…

  • Cover art by Kazunari Negishi – In the April 2011 issue of Asymptote, you will find the article “Knowledge Can Change Your Fate” by the founding editor of the journal, Lee Yew Leong. Read the rest of the issue here.…

  • “– Announcing the launch of ASYMPTOTE, a new international literary journal dedicated to the art and practice of translation. Founded out of Singapore, with editors scattered across the globe, ASYMPTOTE offers a well-calibrated window on world literature, in all its…

  • I am very excited to have the opportunity to introduce Asymptote to Cha readers. Asymptote is a new journal dedicated to literary translation and is run by a team of talented people from different parts of the world — Singapore, Taiwan, Germany,…

  • BOOKSTORE LAUNCH OF GASPP: A GAY ANTHOLOGY OF SINGAPORE POETRY AND PROSE 3-4pm, Birds & Co, Orchard Cineleisure #03-05A http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159379880764684 They are expecting to feature readings with Ovidia Yu, X’Ho, Lee Yew Leong and Cyril Wong.– Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry was…

  • Read Bob Bradshaw’s “Nights in the Forbidden City”, Lee Yew Leong’s “mr cognito’s induction into the mile high club” and “Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”. in the latest issue (October 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – –…

  • GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is an anthology of writing by queer Singapore writers, co-edited by Ng Yi-Sheng with Dominic Chua, Jasmine Seah and Irene Oh. The book features works by several Cha contributors including Cyril Wong, Lee Yew…

  • Read Jason Lee’s poems “Kinabatangan” and “Rafflesia“; Yew Leong Lee’s essay “I’ll Tell You One Day“; and Cyril Wong’s “The Trouble with Billy Collins” in the July 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – Toh Hsien Min comments on…

  • – – The first issue of The Walnut Literary Review, a bimonthly online literary journal devoted to writings and the visual arts, is now launched. It features creative works by a number of Cha contributors. Visit the review’s website and…

  • Cha contributors Reid Mitchell, Philip Holden and Yew Leong Lee have new creative works published in the latest issue (January 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Reid’s poem “Never Give a Clock to a Dead Person“, Philip Holden’s story…

  • The December 2009 issue of Softblow is now live. Read Yew Leong Lee’s poems “The New Madame Bovary”, “During French Class” and “Collocational Serendipities”. Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of…

  • 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”…

  • Yew Leong Lee’s new poem “A bureaucrat’s song” is now published in the November 2009 issue of Nth Position. Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.

  • Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong, Eddie Tay, O Thiam Chin and Toh Hsien Min have creative works published in the July 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Lee Yew Leong’s poem “On a Scale of 1: ∞“, Eddie…

  • Asian Cha contributors Arthur Leung, Cyril Wong and Lee Yew Leong each has poems published in the April 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Arthur’s poems “Rumours” and “Mahjong Table Conversation“, Cyril’s “Landscape” and Yew Leong’s “Stopped Car”…

  • Yew Leong Lee‘s new poem “Sleeveguard” is now published in DIAGRAM (Vol. 8.2). Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” has been published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.