How does urban travel move and inspire? The rhythms, colour, and untold stories of the mass movement of people have inspired and informed the work of dozens of writers. From engagement with everyday modes of transport to magical, otherwordly terminals, our literature has been shaped by developments in public transportation.
Join Ann Ang, Ng Yi-Sheng and Yong Shu Hoong, moderated by Charlene Sheperdson, as they discuss the role that transit and liminal spaces occupy in literary imagination.
This programme is co-organised with Singapore Heritage Fest.
About the Speakers:
Ann Ang is a literature educator and published writer best known as the author of Bang My Car (Math Paper Press, 2012). She is the co-editor of the literary anthologies Poetry Moves (2020) and Food Republic (2020), and also the coordinating editor of PR&TA (Practice, Research & Tangential Activities) a new peer-reviewed journal of creative theory and practice in Southeast Asia. A keen birder, Ann also researches contemporary Anglophone writing from Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Ng Yi-Sheng is a writer, researcher and activist. His books include Lion City and Last Boy (both winners of the Singapore Literature Prize), and he recently edited A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok. He tweets and Instagrams at @yishkabob.
Yong Shu Hoong has previously authored five poetry collections, including Frottage (2005) and The Viewing Party (2013), which both won the Singapore Literature Prize. His poems and short stories have been published in literary journals like Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), and anthologies like Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008).
About the Moderator:
Charlene Shepherdson is a Singaporean writer, dramaturg and community facilitator focused on language in written, performative and visual forms. Their poems have been published in Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema From Singapore and Hongkong (Landmark Books), From Walden to Woodlands and UnFree Verse (Ethos Books), A Luxury We Cannot Afford, SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices (Math Paper Press), and the Straits Times.
VENUE: Seminar Room (Level 2), National Museum of Singapore
ADDRESS: 93 Stamford Road Singapore, 178897
EVENT WEBSITE: Eventbrite (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
13 May 2023, 2.30pm-2.30pm