Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Shawn Hoo discuss their recent works, and how enchantment and disenchantment feature in their poetry.
Shawn Hoo is the author of Of the Florids (2022), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. His recent works can be found in New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, forthcoming), Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA), Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation and elsewhere. He is Translation Tuesdays Editor at Asymptote.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, translator and literary critic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is A Book of Changes (2016). He is the co-editor of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry is Anything but Human (2021). His poetry won him the Golden Point Award in English Poetry. He is currently working on translation projects and putting together an anthology of Malaysia-Singapore writing, entitled The Second Link.
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DATE AND TIME
22 Sep 2022, 7pm-8pm