Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems by Felix Cheong brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as his recent writings. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisis of faith to divorce, from fatherhood to being, yes, tattooed. Voices of killers and prostitutes. Poems at once intensely personal and universal about love, God and things that matter to the heart.
In March, join Author Felix Cheong and the Singapore Book Club as they discuss “Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems”
Praises for Felix Cheong’s “Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems”
“Felix Cheong is a brilliant new voice in the Asia-Pacific region.” by Barbara Allen, Director, Brisbane Writers Festival
“Felix’s poetry takes us to the knife-edge between blessing and bane at which point we often sense Truth perches. ” by Lee Tzu Pheng, SEA Write Award winner, 1987
“Weighing in craft-wise on the value of individuality, Felix Cheong lifts the Spartan form into a glassy surface of poetic wisdom. ” by Alfred A. Yuson, SEA Write Award winner, 1992
“Felix Cheong’s poems sound a distinctive voice among the sharply multiple voices coming from a new generation of Singapore poets. ” by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner, 1980
Date: 19 March 2010, Friday
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Earshot Café @ The Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane)
ADMISSION IS FREE
For more information or to register, email info@bookcouncil.sg with your contact details.
(More information HERE.)
In March, join Author Felix Cheong and the Singapore Book Club as they discuss “Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems”
Praises for Felix Cheong’s “Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems”
“Felix Cheong is a brilliant new voice in the Asia-Pacific region.” by Barbara Allen, Director, Brisbane Writers Festival
“Felix’s poetry takes us to the knife-edge between blessing and bane at which point we often sense Truth perches. ” by Lee Tzu Pheng, SEA Write Award winner, 1987
“Weighing in craft-wise on the value of individuality, Felix Cheong lifts the Spartan form into a glassy surface of poetic wisdom. ” by Alfred A. Yuson, SEA Write Award winner, 1992
“Felix Cheong’s poems sound a distinctive voice among the sharply multiple voices coming from a new generation of Singapore poets. ” by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner, 1980
Date: 19 March 2010, Friday
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Earshot Café @ The Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane)
ADMISSION IS FREE
For more information or to register, email info@bookcouncil.sg with your contact details.
(More information HERE.)
