Back on the Chaingang
QLRS Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Editorial
Poetry
Short Stories
Essays
Criticism
Extra Media
The Acid Tongue

Editorial
On grassroots efforts.

Letter From Home
By Grace Chua.

Dear Poem
By Cyril Wong.

Palmistry
By Gilbert Koh.

A Half Orange
By Aishwarya Iyer.

Histories
By Avik Chanda.

The Heron is a Kind Bird
By Bridget-Rose Lee.

Intermissions
By Ma Shaoling.

Just
By Corey Mesler.

generation
By Edlyn Ang.

season in grey and white
By Ken Lee.

Construction
By Gilbert Koh.

The Bodies
By Chan Ziqian.

Installation 34
By Joji Jacob.

The Awning
By Yongsoo Park.

Markova's Story
Ronald Klein on the last living comfort man of World War II.

A Dark Contemporary Eye
Neil Murphy reviews Claire Tham's The Gunpowder Trail and Other Stories.

Slippery Disconnect
Alvin Pang reviews Koh Buck Song's The Ocean of Ambition.

Modernity and Its Discontents
Ng Wei Chian reviews William Lim's Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective.

No Holiday From The Self
Leonard Ng reviews Zia Zaman's Losing Oneself in Remote Asia.

Never Forgetting The Source
Toh Hsien Min interviews Bernardine Evaristo.

From Icon to Iron
Richard Lord reviews local renditions of Pinter and Munro.

Durang-Utans and Other Species of the Male
Richard Lord reviews recent male-oriented theatre in Singapore.

Shades of Sound
Stella Kon takes in multimedia.

Peter McDonald is ill with Saturday Night Fever

Edited by:
Chief/Poetry: Toh Hsien Min
Short Stories: Yeow Kai Chai
Essays: Heng Siok Tian, Elaine Foo and Cyril Wong
Criticism: Elaine Foo and Chia Yueh Chin
Interviews: Cyril Wong
Extra Media: Cyril Wong and Chia Yueh Chin
The Acid Tongue: Cyril Wong
Technical: vacant

Issue illustration by: Toh Hsien Min

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