Hmm, yesterday’s Straits Times had an interesting article on regular poetry events in Singapore. I have to say, I was totally unaware of these, and I may well go to some. I can cut out and keep the article, but it’s bound to get lost in anycase, so here’s the list of events:
- Poetry du Blanc: BooksActually, 125A Telok Ayer Street; 2nd Saturday of every month @ 14:00; free; free-for-all – no invited poets; booksellers at booksactually dot com; (ST recommends to: Bookworms)
- For Letter or Words: Centre for the Arts, NUS; last Friday of the month, Jan-Mar and Aug-Oct, @19:30; free; invited guests & students, reading poetry, stories, and other media; exxonmobilcc at nus dot edu dot sg; (ST recommends to: Arts Students)
- Poetry Slam: Velvet Underground, Zouk, 17 Jiak Kim Street; last Tuesday of the month @ 19:30; S$10; 3-round poetry contest; audience heckling encouraged; chris at wordforward dot org; (ST recommends to: Drama Mamas)
- Literati: location varies; every 3 months or so; donation; invited performers; plasticblackspecs at hotmail dot com; (ST recommends to: Rockers)
- subTEXT: National Library; first Thursday of the month; 19:00; foreign and local invited guests; free; subtextinfo at yahoo dot com; (ST recommends to: Poet Laureates)
[...] down to the Subtext poetry reading at the National Library. Subtext is one of the poetry events I mentioned previously. It was pretty good; there were four [...]