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| Cyril Wong |
Posted - 20 Dec 2004 : 14:56:42
* Softblow (www.softblow.com), the newest online poetry journal from Singapore, was recently launched by Cyril Wong, a poet who thinks literary magazines “make poets feel less alone.” This may seem either obvious or melodramatic, depending on the pace of your social life, but considering the fact that it wasn’t until 1950 that the first book of poetry in English—Wang Gungwu’s Pulse—was published in Singapore (a former British colony where English is the most common language), you can appreciate the gravity of his statement. Softblow’s editor isn’t being a blowhard when he writes that his magazine is for “those who appreciate how far poetry has come over time.” Indeed, after a slow start, the Singaporean interest in writing in English has grown over the last two decades. Softblow joins several other online literary magazines that feature writing from Singapore and around the world, including the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (www.qlrs.com), Poetry Billboard (www.poetrybillboard.com), and the 2nd Rule
(www.the2ndrule.com). |
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