Cha contributors in Asiatic

The June 2011 issue of Asiatic is now live and we are very glad to see Cha‘s Reviews Editor Eddie Tay featured prominently in the edition. His latest poetry collection Mental Life of Cities is reviewed by Phillip Holden [pdf] whilst his academic work Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature is reviewed by Bernard Wilson [pdf].
Eddie also has five new poems published in the issue. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph by the poet himself. The poems are: “end of tunnel”, “stations of the cross”, “modern concrete”, “glass city’ and “fence”. Read them here [pdf].

The issue also includes Kirpal Singh’s review of Rabindranath Tagore’s Selected Short Stories (trans. Mohammad A. Quayum). Read the article here [pdf].



  • Read Eddie Tay’s Cha profile.
  • Philip Holden’s fiction was published in Issue #4 of Cha.
  • Kirpal Singh contributed a review to Issue #9 of Cha.
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CHA contributors in Asiatic

Cha contributors have works featured in the latest issue (June 2009) of Asiatic: Journal of English  Language and Literature. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s article “Writing for Asian Children: History, Fantasy, and Identity(PDF), Agnes Lam’s review (PDF) of Singapore Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography and her own poem, “Vanilla in the Star(PDF). Also featured in the issue is David C.E. Tneh’s poem, “Orchard Dreams(PDF). Cha will be featuring David’s two Orchard poems, “Orchard Dreams” and “Orchard Memories”, in the August 2009 issue of the journal.

  • Anges Lam’s poetry has been published in issue #2 of Cha.
  • Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
  • David C.E. Tneh’s poetry will be published in issue #8 of Cha.