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I presented a 90 minute poetry workshop, “Things I Love and Hate” on Friday 23 March 2018 for refugee women. The workshop was requested by the Christian Action Centre for Refugees as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership…
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We are happy to announce that in September 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2018. If you have something original, bizarre, daring…
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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malachi Edwin Vethamani (author), Complicated Lives, Maya Press, 2016. 112 pgs. Malachi Edwin Vethamani (editor), Malchin…
![[REVIEW] “A Review of Two Books of Malaysian Poetry: 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 and 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡” by Goh Cheng Fai Zach](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/malachi-edwin-vethamani.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo (author), Miki Hawkinson (translator), I Want to Go Home, Math Paper Press, 2017. 222 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Memory, Trauma, Love: Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐺𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒／帰りたい” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/i-want-to-go-home.png?w=833)
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{Written by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Warran Kalasegaran, Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy, Epigram Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Warran Kalasegaran’s debut novel, Lieutenant…
![[REVIEW] “Burying the Spoils of War: Warran Kalsegaran’s 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐾𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑤𝑎’𝑠 𝐸𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑦” by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ebfp-errandboy_cvf_300_1024x1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 39 (March 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Jang Hoon (director), A Taxi Driver (Taeksi Woonjunsa), 2017. 137 min. A Taxi Driver is set during the…
![[REVIEW] “Becoming a Hero: Jang Hoon’s A Taxi Driver” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/driver.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Paul French, Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, Penguin, 2017. 116 pgs. Most general summaries of Shanghai are too…
![[Review] Shanghai Swan Song: Paul French’s Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bloody-saturday.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Vivian Tang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chung Man Yee (director), And I Hate You So (Siu chan chan), 2000. 96 min. At the start…
![[Review] Vinyl Love: Chung Man Yee’s And I Hate You So](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/siu-chan-chan-hong-kong-movie-poster.jpg?w=500)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Boey Kim Cheng, Gull Between Heaven and Earth, Epigram Books, 2017. 288 pgs. The Chinese are never…
![[Review] Longing for Home: Boey Kim Cheng’s Gull Between Heaven and Earth](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gull1.png?w=331)
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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (author), Nazry Bahrawi (translator), Lost Nostalgia, Ethos Books, 2017. 200 pgs. One of modernity’s defining…
![[REVIEW] “There Is Much that His Narratives Can Offer the World: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑎” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lost_big.jpg?w=660)
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