#sglit

[thepixabaypoet]

this is my promise the door is open for you now and forever

Image by Ben Kerckx (https://buff.ly/48gZ6GZ) from Pixabay

[fagofgod]

maybe more people would get invested in our literature if it didn't suck ass 🤷‍♂️

[huitingreads]

“The ‘now what’ question is a continual challenge, not a static endpoint. It means to open up creativity, exploration, ongoing efforts from multiple places. To do all that, we have to keep reading, keep listening, keep reflecting, keep learning.”

Teo You Yenn, This is What Inequality Looks Like

[monochromedreamscape]

when these things change

the moment i heard the news

my heart sank and never stopped sinking

the day had come

for you to leave this world 

i begged time to stand still

for a just little longer 

one more second

i cried

that’s all i need

but time

it stayed true to it’s word

the hands of the clock

on that pale hospital wall

continued to tick furiously 

because time waits for no one

the living 

nor the dead 

[handmaderockcandy]

LollyTalk's handcrafted lolly mix for the launching of the graphic novel “Amazing Ash and Superhero Ah Ma” by writer Melanie Lee and published with her team at Difference Engine, illustrated by Arif Rafhan !! Want to be the first to try these delicious handcrafted lollies? Be the first few who preorders the latest “Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma” graphic novel, and receive complimentary packets of Amazing Ash handmade lollies from the writer! (Limited stocks, exact details have to be confirmed with writer/publisher ) The preorder period ends on Sun, 4 Oct 2359hrs so grab your copy (and hopefully the handmade lollies by LollyTalk) over here: bit.ly/team-ASH LollyTalk also provides personalised packagings for various marketing needs such as roadshow giveaways, seminar door gifts, celebration gifts and various gifting needs for corporate events. When it comes to customising lollies for renown writers such as Melanie, they have chosen lollies handcrafted by LollyTalk, what about you? Ideal door gifts for various corporate events, wedding favours, baby shower door gifts and birthday parties! (For corporate orders, please send email to info@lollytalk.com; other cost effective customisation for the packaging are available too) You really have to experience a LollyTalk to know why so many people, big companies, government agencies, international brands as well as wedding couples chosen LollyTalk as their gifting partner! #lollytalk #amazingashandsuperheroahma #kidlit #graphicnovel #comics #sglit #sealit #handmade #candy #bestcandy #handmadelollies #handmadelolly #lolly #lollies #sweets #糖果 #sugar #sugarart #手工糖 #handmadecandy #corporategift #corporategifts #corporategifting #giveaways #gift #doorgift #sgunited #ilovesingapore #ilovesg https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzBqPbHMIi/?igshid=545zjbz3oo7b

[heenbeans]

Ann Ang; Koel calls

Where do birds go when they die? Do they rain down buildings in flights of echoes, in ambulance sirens, or pass like trains?

Does a flower-pecker become a whistling-kettle?

Is this why you hear parroting in lifts, grunt at the bark of an owl, or breath holding an evening full of windowed estates with house-swifts drawing down blinds behind wind chimes, stirred by crimson-eyed starlings among berried palms?

Tell me, have you ever seen a dead bird? Are they, like us, mindful when they die? Do they sing, as we grieve, incomprehensibly? Is flight to them like our faith in ourselves, so mundane that we forget to read auguries in sparrowhawks, or wonder how a body may fall through the same height that lends us a view of stairwells, service balconies, water-tanks, hills?

Do they, unlike us, migrate without assuming differences, so that a koel calls before daybreak to question a sunrise elsewhere? Do we put a name to plumage and whistling-rite, only to undress our ears and eyes? Do we live? Can they die?

[rainydaywoes]

Nowadays she stays mostly indoors, talking to Despair, who is blind. She feels heavy and lethargic, and keeps the curtains drawn so people outside cannot see how gross she has become. Still, even though Anxiety claims to prefer the dark, I know she has a secret pair of wings which she's forgotten how to use. Deep in her heart, what she truly wants is to fly again—if only she could be sure of never falling.

What gives us our names, Alvin Pang

[charsiewspace]

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER!

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GUIDEBOOK TO NANYANG DIPLOMACY available for sale at [link] and [link]!

[the-end-of-art]

It's here! THIS IS WHERE I WON'T BE ALONE, my debut collection of stories! I'm happy to announce that there are many ways to order the book, and it will reach you wherever you live in the world. IN SINGAPORE: - Stores: Coming very soon to Neo Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store, BooksActually, and other fine places where books are sold! - Online from Epigram Books (https://shop.epigrambooks.sg/products/this-is-where-i-wont-be-alone), with free shipping in Singapore over $25. In other words, no charge for shipping if you buy two books! :) ANYWHERE ELSE OUTSIDE SINGAPORE: - Epigram Books (https://shop.epigrambooks.sg/products/this-is-where-i-wont-be-alone), shipping by weight - LocalBooks.sg (https://localbooks.sg/collections/authors/products/this-is-where-i-wont-be-alone), flat shipping rate on any number of copies (great for larger orders!) Above all, I hope you'll enjoy reading my first book! I think of these as stories about home and belonging in Singapore and beyond that I've wanted to read all along. I'm so excited for them to finally find their way to you. Yours in the company of book-lovers everywhere, Inez <3 https://ineztan.com/ 

[overcomingalexithymia]

So I’m not dead but I have been busy.

If you ever liked my writing, you can buy my debut collection of poetry at https://www.booksactuallyshop.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/the-woman-who-turned-into-a-vending-machine, they do international shipping too.

[thehumbleart]

Wealth and subtlety were uneasy bedfellows in Asia. Even ministers were not immune to tacky indulgences.

Neil Humphreys’ Rich Kill Poor Kill

[thepixabaypoet]

i'll make it all right and all you have to give up is your sense of self

Image by Julián Amé (https://buff.ly/3Y2taBv) from Pixabay

[natalieweepoetry]

Hello Singapore! 

For the first time ever, I’ll be performing in the country along with amazing local talents. And hey, maybe you’re a local talent yourself---step up to the open mic and blow me away! 

For those of you that fear Amazon shipping fees, good news: my book will also be brought into Singapore for the first time!

Details on FB here. I can’t wait to meet you all 🌸

[redfleece]

We should use our privileged status to help others and not to trample on them. Kudos to lawyer Anis and @home.migrants.sg Shame on Parti Liyana’s former employer! All that wealth and education yet you behave so ghastly. Let’s continue to support our migrant workers and HOME. Do buy ‘The Cure’ book and show that we are not like the Liews. All proceeds from book sale go to HOME. We had donated $4400 in the first fundraising round. Let’s raise more this time. Books can be purchased from @wardahbooks @ungu_pen @mayagallerysg @writeherewritenow #thecure #migrantworkers #sgunited #humanrights #kindness #justice #equality #singapore #indonesia #compassion #probono #reading #sglit #buysinglit (at HOME: Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEykeTfhN2r/?igshid=8103957zpvn1

[monochromedreamscape]

it’s fine

when time starts slipping away

and all the people who say

you’ve got until May

tell you to have more faith every day

but guess what they were lying to your face anyway

[handmaderockcandy]

LollyTalk’s handcrafted lolly mix for the launching of the book “Amazing Ash and Superhero Ah Ma” by writer Melanie Lee and published with her team at Difference Engine, illustrated by Arif Rafhan. The book is available for online preorders now! For more information, check this out… https://differenceengine.sg/comics/amazing-ash-superhero-ah-ma/ LollyTalk also provides personalised packagings for various marketing needs such as roadshow giveaways, seminar door gifts, celebration gifts and various gifting needs for corporate events. When it comes to customising lollies for renown writers such as Melanie, they have chosen lollies handcrafted by LollyTalk, what about you? Ideal door gifts for various corporate events, wedding favours, baby shower door gifts and birthday parties! (For corporate orders, please send email to info@lollytalk.com; other cost effective customisation for the packaging are available too) You really have to experience a LollyTalk to know why so many people, big companies, government agencies, international brands as well as wedding couples chosen LollyTalk as their gifting partner! #lollytalk #amazingashandsuperheroahma #kidlit #graphicnovel #comics #sglit #sealit #handmade #candy #bestcandy #handmadelollies #handmadelolly #lolly #lollies #sweets #糖果 #sugar #sugarart #手工糖 #handmadecandy #corporategift #corporategifts #corporategifting #giveaways #gift #doorgift #sgunited #ilovesingapore #ilovesg https://www.instagram.com/p/CFlOegwnd-G/?igshid=43icr2u8vb6v