PROSE ON POETRY
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Much-loved Singapore poet Robert Yeo shares a few of his own Japanese-style poems – and their sources of inspiration
ROBERT YEO
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Mongolian poets have been exploring new techniques of late, but their work is still very much a paean to Nature, the desert and the steppes
RUTH O'CALLAGHAN
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Here’s how you can write your own four-line pantun, the beautiful form of Malay poetry where the moral and the lyric are clearly separated
IRWAN ABU BAKAR
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Politics, propaganda, “post-modernism” and amid it all, the search for truth – a look at the trials and triumphs of modern Burmese poetry
MAUNG THA NOE
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Singapore’s famous poet and playwright tells us why he admires the tanka, an ancient form of Japanese poetry.
ROBERT YEO
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