The final reading from New Singapore Poetries! Join us from across the world for the virtual celebration of this groundbreaking anthology. Wrapping itself, tasting, luxuriating in the recurrent themes of the body, family, sexuality, spirituality, neo-colonialism, geographies, positionalities, identity, and nationalism, New Singapore Poetries brims with the ambition and talent of 18 of Singapore’s newest poetic voices, many hitherto unpublished. This reading features contributors Ally Chua, Jack Xi, and Lune Loh.

Ally Chua is a Singaporean poet. She was the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City, and a member of local writing collective /s@ber. Ally has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Review, and Lammergeier Magazine.

Jack Xi (they/he) is a queer, disabled Singaporean poet. A member of the writing collective /Stop@BadEndRhymes (stylised /s@ber), they’ve appeared in several online poetry journals and Singaporean anthologies and can be found at “jackxisg.wordpress.com”.

Lune Loh is a core member of /S@BER, a Singaporean writing collective, and is finishing her undergraduate degree at the National University of Singapore. Her works have appeared in the Evergreen Review, SOFTBLOW, Cha, Cordite, and various SingPoWriMo