Poetry Recital Tour April 2002




Felix Cheong

FELIX CHEONG was the recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. His two books of poetry are Temptation and Other Poems (1998) and I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999).

 

Alvin Pang

ALIVN PANG's first volume of poetry Testing the Silence was voted one of the Straits imes' Top Ten books of 1997. He has co-edited two anthologies of poetry: No Other City and Love Gathers All.

 

 

 

 

 

Aaron Lee

AARON LEE is a lawyer whose first collection of poetry A Visitation of Sunlight was voted one of the Top Ten books of 1997 by the Straits Times. The title poem was later chosen by the NAC as one of the poems to appear on its Poems on the Move posters.

 

 

Grace Chia

GRACE CHIA's first book Womango was published in 1998. She recently completed her MA in Literature at Goldsmith College in London, under an NAC overseas bursary.

 

Dave Chua

DAVE CHUA's novel Gone Case won a Singapore Literature Prize Commendation in 1996.

 

 

Gui Wei Hsin

GUI WEI HSIN is currently studying at Wesleyan University in the States. His poems have been anthologised in No Other City and Love Gathers All.