Jakarta Selatan 2017
Barossa Valley, December 2013
We Rose Up Slowly, The Second Edition,
is available at
Books Actually, all good bookstores and online here (free shipping in Singapore).
I must concede I did not take to the cover at first, and argued with the publisher - whose winning argument was that I was too old to know what would sell to the average young Singaporean.
Now I think the cover is really good and I don't know what I was complaining about.
I think I was too attached to the First Edition cover. Sigh.
Let me know what you think.
Speakeasy #31 was held on 17 May 2017 at Artistry with poets, Yong Shu Hoong and Will Beale.
Shu Hoong is one of my favourite poets and Frottage one of the best Singaporean poetry books published. Will Beale is such an exciting poet who uses music to great effect.
If you missed this reading, or want to hear more, then do come along to "Singapore & Australia: connections, country & belonging”, a literary roundtable presented by Sing Lit Station on 22 June 2017 at 3A Jalan Kubor.
Shu Hoong and Will, and also Balli Kaur Jaswal, David Wong and Eileen Chong, will be reading and discussing their Singapore Australian connections.
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was sold out at Books Actually last Thursday night after Balli Kaur Jaswal's book launch.
Another wonderful, warm novel from Balli, and a very enjoyable book launch.
Here's a review from one of my favourite newspapers, The Economist.
Many thanks and hats off to the multi-talented Daryl Qilin Yam for taking most of these images.
All images are copyright Jon Gresham and Daryl Qilin Yam, all rights reserved. Please contact me if you wish to purchase rights to use an image.
Shanghai 2007
SingPoWriMo 2017 closing party at Sing Lit Station.
The roti prata was very nice. The poetry even nicer. Well done to all the winners. 'Bread talks, but the kopi tiam.'
Don't forget to support the SIngPoWriMo 2017 Anthology at Indiegogo
This year's anthology will be edited by Ruth Tang, Stephanie Dogfoot and Daryl Qilin Yam.
Shanghai, 2007
A list of some of my favourite short stories with links to the stories (for educational purposes only).
FH Bangkok Team at Club Med Phuket in 2001-2
What a wonderful bunch of people to work with. We had a lot of fun in those days!
Chao Papaya River Ferry, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Boxer, Bangkok, 2000
‘several things dovetailed in my mind and at once it struck me, what quality went to form . . . Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’
John Keats
