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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is TEN years old!

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“You might also guess that I’ve never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones.”
-Toh Hsien Min
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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!

Happy Birthday!
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In its tenth anniversary issue, you can find the following works by Cha contributors: Arjun Rajedran’s “Elegy of the adulteress”, Bernard Henrie’s “Jiating Pavilion”, Bob Bradshaw’s “A Poem after Tu Fu”, Heng Siok Tian’s “Whose song is it anyway?”, O Thiam Chin’s “You Are Always Here, All The Time” and Cyril Wong’s “Open Season on Martin Amis”. Make sure to read Toh Hsien Min’s editorial “Age is just a number” as well.

“Here’s to a good one, and the next ten.”
-Toh Hsien Min

  • Arjun Rajedran’s poetry was published in Issue 11 of Cha.
  • Bernard Henrie’s poetry was published in Issue 9 of Cha and is forthcoming in Issue #15 of Cha.
  • See Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.
  • Heng Siok Tian’s poetry was published in Issue 1 of Cha.
  • O Thiam Chin’s short story “Pebbles” was published in Issue #8 of Cha.
  • Cyril Wong’s poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha.
  • Toh Hsien Min’s poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.
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Cha contributors in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

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Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Find” and story “The Assistant”; Bernard Henrie’s poem “The Moon a Late Bus”; and O Thiam Chin’s story “Sleeping”. The issue also contains “Hiding Behind the Maple Leaf” by Cyril Wong.
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Bernard Henrie, Royston Tester and Gilbert Koh in QLRS

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The January 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is live! Read Bernard Henrie’s poems “President Obama at Xavier’s College, India” and “I Was Only a Chambermaid”; Royston Tester’s short story, “Bird on a High Branch” (written when he was a resident at the Red Gate Gallery (Beijing) between 2008-2010); and finally, Gilbert Koh’s review of Chandran Nai’s Reaching for Stones.
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  • Bernard Henrie’s poetry was published in Issue 9 of Cha
  • Read Royston Tester’s Cha profile.
  • Gilbert Koh’s poetry was published in Issue 4 of Cha and his poem “Not Home” was discussed here.
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Bob Bradshaw and Lee Yew Leong in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

Read Bob Bradshaw’s “Nights in the Forbidden City”, Lee Yew Leong’s “mr cognito’s induction into the mile high club” and “Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”. in the latest issue (October 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
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CHA contributors in QLRS

Read Jason Lee’s poems “Kinabatangan” and “Rafflesia“; Yew Leong Lee’s essay “I’ll Tell You One Day“; and Cyril Wong’s “The Trouble with Billy Collins” in the July 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
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Toh Hsien Min comments on Jason’s poems: “We have two very good poems from Jason Lee, one of which I had previously felt pained to decline but the improvement in it since has made it among the first names on this teamsheet.”
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CHA contributors in QLRS

Cha contributors Reid Mitchell, Philip Holden and Yew Leong Lee have new creative works published in the latest issue (January 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Reid’s poem “Never Give a Clock to a Dead Person“, Philip Holden’s story “Host” and Yew Leong Lee’s “Faith“.

  • Reid Mitchell is consulting editor of Cha.
  • Philip Holden’s fiction has been published in issue #4 of Cha.
  • Yew Leong Lee’s fiction has been published in issue#6 of Cha.
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CHA contributors in QLRS

Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong and Shirley Geok-lin Lim have works published in the October 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Yew Leong’s story “Gross Domestic Happiness” and article “The Mise En Abyme in Byatt’s The Matisse Stories” and Shirley’s review article “Singapore Between Past and Future“. Also included in the issue is a review of Gilbert Koh’s poetry collection Two Baby Hands.

Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
Gilbert Koh’s poetry has been published in issue #4 of Cha.

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CHA contributors in QLRS

Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong, Eddie Tay, O Thiam Chin and Toh Hsien Min have creative works published in the July 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Lee Yew Leong’s poem “On a Scale of 1: ∞“, Eddie Tay’s poem “for arthur yap“, O Thiam Chin’s short story “Garoupa” and view Toh Hsien Min’s photographs of Seoul at night, “Film Noir Korea” in the new issue of QLRS.

  • Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.
  • Read Eddie Tay’s Cha profile.
  • Toh Hsien Min’s poems were published in issue#5 of Cha.