I made them laugh, think, and feel. That’s worth something, isn’t it? I must be worth something. In sum, humans are reciprocal, conversational creatures. And I see poetry that way, too: truly a tool ...

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Sarkar’s translations of Tagore ’s tiny, pithy, poems do, for the most part, retain a flavour of originality. He is able to, ...

Father’s Day is a day to shine with family, come together to smile, laugh, and come to share and care. Let’s celebrate fathers by showing our gratitude, thankfulness, and gratefulness for all the hard ...

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translations are fluent and innovative. He often makes the idiom more distinct in English, the mark ...

In this week’s Singapore Shelf, The Straits Times surveys the latest local fiction, non-fiction and poetry titles.  Read more ...

“Stock responses”, critical clichés or ready-made opinions were Richards’s particular bugbear, and Prynne’s poetry is Teflon to them ... in print / I want to let it wander off the ...

“They asked me about my early days as a poet and I read out a few poems for them. It went well. They’ll let me know when it’s going to air on TV.” A couple of weeks later my father’s interview aired ...

Wild thing. You made my yard sing. You made everything groovy. Except, of course, when you flew into my face and died ...

In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language is captivating, whether organized as a poem or not. Is there a particular voice, that with the person’s other mannerisms, you consider ...