“From Singapore, Alvin Pang proved that even poetry written in the cultural mash-up language…” [quote]

❝From Singapore, Alvin Pang proved that even poetry written in the cultural mash-up language of Singlish (Malay, Chinese and sing-song English) had immense verve and humour.❞ — David Robinson and Susan Mansfield in The Scotsman 

Gilbert Koh - Poems Here And There

“Didn't write much at all in 2012. But the world around me recycled some of my old poems and they got a new breath of life. Recording my poetic momentos [sic] for 2012 here:

PROJECT LAVA

This month, I was mentioned on the Straits Times' front page. Not only on the front page, but in the headline article. Nice publicity for the literary arts:

This was about the National Art Council's Project Lava. The idea was to pair up a visual artist with a poem, and have the artist create something based on his interpretation of the poem.

In my case, the artist was Sonny Liew (who has previously illustrated Iron Man for Marvel Comics - how cool!) who created a very large mural (16 x 4 metres) at Punggol Waterway. The mural incorporates an old poem of mine Accident. More details in the follow-up article in the ST's Life! section.”

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