I met the talented, vivacious Singapore-born American writer Wena Poon last October, sharing a taxi ride from Denpasar airport to Ubud, Bali, for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. In that taxi and during her panels I learnt that Wena was dauntingly ‘together’ – interweaving careers in writing and Law, travelling the world, and seeming like she was [...]
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Internet issues, reviews to come
March 27, 2010 – 2:39 pm
Hi lovely readers. The shift key on my laptop isn’t working and my USB drive keeps crashing the computer here where I’m staying (with the internet connection). I may not be able to blog until I hit Northern NSW on Tuesday. Apologies! Read on, Angela
From my iPhone
March 1, 2010 – 11:27 am
Having internet issues in the tiny window available for blogging! Updates on the Perth Writers Festival, including peacocks, podcasts and polevaulting, as soon as I get a chance. My last session is this afternoon, then I’m going to see at least one West-side beach before I go home…
heterogenesis – a poem
August 17, 2007 – 7:39 pm
it was not the kiss of the spider-woman that led him to Giovanni’s room so small a thing as a boy climbing fairy mountain it was not ennui of cohabitation that led her to jiggery-pokery tongue-flicks on a jew’s harp unsheathed fingertips not mutated but heteronumerous a pastiche of emotivity breast by cheek by bone [...]
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Shakespeare and Co., Paris
Despite seeing Notre Dame, the Panthéon and the Conciergerie today, and unexpectedly falling in love with stone, spiral staircases, there was another highlight I thought you’d appreciate: visiting one of the world’s most famous and truly delightful bookstores, Shakespeare and Company. The shelves are crammed with old and new books, the staff (I heard only [...]