Dipping and Serving
From the editorial: "We have two very good poems from Jason Lee, one of which I had previously felt pained to decline but the improvement in it since has made it among the first names on this teamsheet. While the note of menace carries through to Holly Day's 'Room 13', the remaining poems all then carry what I see as a note of play - from the inversion of the usual active forms in J.H. Martin's 'Behind Temple Walls' to the Yeow Kai Chai's geometric passing in text. The four short stories are again the winners of another very large crop, and Lee Yew Leong then illuminates the mise en abyme further for us. There are also four reviews of recent work, all of which are - surprisingly for us - broadly positive."
Poetry
Kinabatangan
by Jason Lee
Rafflesia
by Jason Lee
Room 13
by Holly Day
Behind Temple Walls
by J.H. Martin
Buy Me Finery For My Funeral
by Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Why the Ghost Wears a Sheet
by Anthony Robbins
I am not similar at all
by Nicholas Liu
Begone dull care
by Yeow Kai Chai
Air Con Light in a Dark Room
by Kaiyi Tan
Short Stories
City in C Minor
by Stephanie Ye
Variations on the Theme of Coffee
by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Learning to Swim
by Eileen Chong
The Two Hours
by Ram Govardhan
More information here.
From the editorial: "We have two very good poems from Jason Lee, one of which I had previously felt pained to decline but the improvement in it since has made it among the first names on this teamsheet. While the note of menace carries through to Holly Day's 'Room 13', the remaining poems all then carry what I see as a note of play - from the inversion of the usual active forms in J.H. Martin's 'Behind Temple Walls' to the Yeow Kai Chai's geometric passing in text. The four short stories are again the winners of another very large crop, and Lee Yew Leong then illuminates the mise en abyme further for us. There are also four reviews of recent work, all of which are - surprisingly for us - broadly positive."
Poetry
Kinabatangan
by Jason Lee
Rafflesia
by Jason Lee
Room 13
by Holly Day
Behind Temple Walls
by J.H. Martin
Buy Me Finery For My Funeral
by Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Why the Ghost Wears a Sheet
by Anthony Robbins
I am not similar at all
by Nicholas Liu
Begone dull care
by Yeow Kai Chai
Air Con Light in a Dark Room
by Kaiyi Tan
Short Stories
City in C Minor
by Stephanie Ye
Variations on the Theme of Coffee
by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Learning to Swim
by Eileen Chong
The Two Hours
by Ram Govardhan
More information here.
