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australia meets the liwuli and the empat perkataan

28/9/2015

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At the tail end of my whirlwind tour through Australia, I made a stop at the SA Writers Centre in Adelaide and conducted a workshop on Asian forms, ranging from the more familiar haiku, tanka, rengu/renga, pantun, to the rediscovered forms liwuli and empat perkataan that Singaporean writers have appropriated and run away with in the past few years.

The workshop went down well, and attracted (to my initial trepidation) local Australian writers Mike Hopkins and Rob Walker, who both had very kind things to say. Both of them took to the liwuli like naturals, and their mod-liwuli offerings can be found here and here.

Somewhere along the line I also managed to get heard by David Martin Jones, who decided to borrow a couple of my lines to make a political point in what is ostensibly a review of the LKY musical (?!?)

"The young satirist Joshua Ip admits that in Singapore ‘I hold my own tongue /I eat my own words/ I shut my own trap’. To prove Ip’s point, in March, the party state imprisoned a sixteen year old blogger, Amos Yee, for obscenity."

"Young satirist"??? You didn't hear it from me. 
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Michael Hopkins link
20/10/2015 02:49:52 am

Thanks Joshua. It was a great workshop. I blogged about it here:

https://mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/getting-luwilis-with-joshua-ip/

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rob walker link
20/10/2015 04:12:45 am

Cheers Joshua. Your workshop was excellent. Thanks for the encouragement and acknowledgement.

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  • art
    • poetry >
      • sonnets from the singlish
      • making love with scrabble tiles
      • footnotes on falling
      • SingPoWriMo
      • A Luxury We Cannot Afford
      • Unfree Verse
      • Twin Cities
      • call and response
      • 11x9
      • Farquhar
      • To Let the Light In
      • translations to the tanglish
      • Ipster Cafe @ The Middle Ground
    • graphic novel
    • music >
      • musicals
      • lyrics
      • a capella
    • prose
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