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Friday, 28 January 2022

'In the Same Light'? New translations of Tang poetry by Wong May

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  Guest review by Daryl Lim Wei Jie Wong May, the poet behind In the Same Light , a collection of two hundred Tang Dynasty poems in translat...
Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, an introduction to his Filipino poetry in translation

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  Kristine Ong Muslim recently translated Hollow (original title, Guwang), a collection of some of Arguelles's early poems written in ...
Monday, 17 January 2022

A great year of reading ahead

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Asian Books Blog is now reopen after the recent holidays, and we're looking forward to Chinese New Year.  Look out for a post from Nicky...
Sunday, 12 December 2021

Closing for Christmas

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  Asian Books Blog is now closing for Christmas.  It will reopen on January 16, 2022.  Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it, happy holi...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

The Whole Kahani Writers’ Collective, guest post by Reshma Ruia

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The Whole Kahani Writers’ Collective provides support to writers of South Asian descent living in the UK. The Collective has just published ...
Sunday, 5 December 2021

A Novel Education, guest post from E.S. Alexander

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E.S. (Liz) Alexander was born in Scotland but now lives in Penang, Malaysia. She has written and co-authored over 20 award-winning non-ficti...
Friday, 26 November 2021

On Making Things Up: In conversation with Lila Matsumoto

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Editor’s note : Lila Matsumoto’s new collection, Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (a Winter 2021 Poetry Book Society Recommendation), is at once...