“My process is one of contemplation and never flinching or turning away from the pain of difficult experiences.” Speaking with honesty, as Cyril Wong says, is harder than we think. But it can be rewarding for both writer and reader. Join him as he hangs out at the Huggs-Epigram Coffee Bookshop to find out why that's so—and how you can do it too.
Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover’s Inventory (2015), novel The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014). He completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His works have been featured in the Norton anthology, Language for a New Century, in Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman’s Library, and in magazines and journals around the world. His writings have been translated into Turkish, German, Italian, French and Japanese.
VENUE: Huggs-Epigram Coffee Bookshop
ADDRESS: 45 Maxwell Road, #01-01, Singapore 069118
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook
DATE AND TIME
28 Mar 2020, 11am-2pm