PROGRAMME DETAILS

Poetry Bites #5
Video
DATE / TIME
3 Nov, Tue
9:00 PM - 9:10 PM
10mins
VENUE
SISTIC Live
Festival Pass Event
LANGUAGE
This session is in English
MODERATED BY
Marc Nair
DESCRIPTION
Produced by Marc Nair.
Get your daily fix of poetry during the Singapore Writers Festival! 10 poets will read poems that respond to the festival’s theme, Intimacy, and have a brief conversation on the poem's themes and issues with host Marc Nair.
Each video is pre-recorded, and will be available on video-on-demand replay.
FEATURING
Joshua Ip
Singapore
Joshua Ip is a poet, editor, and literary organiser. He has published four poetry collections and edited nine anthologies. More recently, he has been working on a series of formal translations of Chinese poetry by Pan Shou and French poetry by Pierre Vinclair. He has won the Singapore Literature Prize, Golden Point Award, and received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2017. He co-founded Sing Lit Station, an over-active literary charity that runs community initiatives including SingPoWriMo, Manuscript Bootcamp, and poetry.sg. Find out more at www.joshuaip.com
Joshua Ip is featured in the following SWF event(s):Marc Nair
Singapore
Marc Nair is a poet who works at the intersection of art forms. He is currently pursuing projects that involve photography, movement, and creative non-fiction. His work revolves around the ironies and idiosyncrasies of everyday life. He has published 10 collections of poetry.
Marc Nair is featured in the following SWF event(s):© 2020 Singapore Writers Festival [GCC]