Singapore Writers Festival: Poets take on calligraphy, letterpress, translation

Multidisciplinary artist Zheng Jialei (woman in black) responding to the words of poet Tse Hao Guang (man pointing) using an invented calligraphic script. PHOTO: NICHOLAS YEO
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SINGAPORE - Collaboration is the lifeblood of poetry, as home-grown poets demonstrated on Nov 17 and 18 at the Singapore Writers Festival.

Writer Yap Hao Yang, founder of youth literary platform sploosh!, paired two artists and poets on the opening night in an intimate performance, (Re)visiting Sing Lit, which showed how poetry could thrive at the interstice of words and images.

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