• Divya Rajan in Burnt Bridge

    Divya Rajan’s two poems “Collared shadows with a neat bow in the middle” and “Colors of the Deal” are published in Burnt Bridge. Read the poems here. – – Read Divya Rajan’s Cha profile here. – –

  • So much depends upon a pretty heroine

    This post was originally written on 8th December, 2009. Illustrations by Laura Barrett Everyone knows the story of Snow White. A wicked stepmother,1 upon finding out from her magic mirror that her stepdaughter, Snow White (who is ‘as white as…

  • Kay Sexton’s Minding My Peas And Cucumbers

    Click the image to learn more about the book.  – Kay Sexton’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #2 of Cha. – –

  • Rumjhum Biswas in Asia Writes

    Three poems by Rumjhum Biswas, collectively titled “Sketches”, are now published on Asia Writes. The three poems are: “Pomegranate”, “Kingfisher” and “Outside the Gate”. Read them here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha.…

  • Poetry OutLoud poets and Cha contributors on the BBC World Service

    BBC World Service – The Strand Poets Zheng Danyi and Martin Alexander talk about “New Generation Poetry” and read Danyi’s poem “Dedication”, written in 1990. Also, a love poem from the Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to his wife (“I Give Everything to You”) is…

  • Stuff white people like

    This post was originally written on 15th October, 2009. Have you heard of Stuff White People Like? There’s a feature article about it today in The Guardian.  It is not difficult to guess what the blog/book Stuff White People Like…

  • Whale Sound

    Whale Sound is Nic Sebastian’s project. According to Nic, “My idea is to record and post readings of contemporary poems that affect me in one way or another.” Learn more about Whale Sound here.Several Cha contributors’ poems have been recorded…

  • Difficult language — some thoughts

    This post was originally written on 15th April, 2009. Judith Butler Judith Butler‘s prose style has often been criticised as ‘hard’ and unnecessarily perplexing. To some frustrated scholars, her thoughts must be very muddled and therefore can only be translated into…

  • Launch of Eddie Tay’s The Mental Life of Cities at Poetry OutLoud

    Venue: Fringe Club Date: 3 Nov 2010 (Wed) Time: 8pm Akin Jeje will MC – if you’d like to read in the open mic section, please email us at poetryoutloud@gmail.com About The Mental Life of Cities This collection is a meditation on…

  • How honest are you in your diary?

    This post was originally written on 18th April, 2009. Today, the webmaster told me a story from Greg Egan‘s Axiomatic. The story, “The Hundred Light-Year Diary”, is about a future invention that allows people to send messages to themselves from…