Burn After Reading SG, a Singapore collective of young writers, presented a poetry evening with Cyril Wong at Artistry on 22 May 2015.
Cyril shared several of his poems (including one of my favourites First Date) and answered questions.
Cyril was in good form and talked about growing up on the concrete floor of a small HDB flat, the music in his poetry, darkness, getting to know Terry Jaensch, why he likes the Australian poetry scene, his ‘process’ (handphone note taking and sending SMSs to the self, collecting these wisps in a laptop each evening and letting the work grow from there) etc etc.
Then Cyril sang a Chinese lullaby and we were taken to a completely different space.
No wonder people were turned away at the door.