Alfian Saat - Some Say, A Tapir

At core will be an exploration of how the veracity of the Sulalatus Salatin has been doubted by many commentators who remark on its fantastical elements. For example, there is a tendency to cite from zoological data to throw a skeptical light on the Sulalatus Salatins account of Sang Nila sighting a lion: there are no lions in this part of the world, so the account is false. This is in spite of the fact that many scholars have stressed that the vision of a lionan animal of similar divine provenance as the naga or garudawas symbolic of the mandate of divine kingship. Working from this epistemic tension between empirical facticity and a metaphorical or allegorical mode of writing, the poem cycle will seek to interrogate various truth claims in the manuscript and stage a generative conflict between literalism and mythmaking. If you cannot marry for love, marry for silver
Christine Chia These four poems will use the voices of two different characters of that period: Wan Sri Benian, or Queen Sakidar Shah, adoptive mother and mother-in-law to Sri Tri Buana, and a Chinese sailor abandoned in Borneo in 1292 when he fell sickhe eventually drifted to Singapore and settled there. Blunt Objects
Yong Shu Hoong American author Ursula K. Blunt Objects
Yong Shu Hoong American author Ursula K.

Le Guin, in The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics, contemplates if there will come a time, with advances in research and technology, when the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space. Extrapolating from such an idea, these poems imagine how relics from the pastwhether man-made or forged by naturecould inform us of the truths behind historical events and long-held mysteries when their silence is unlocked. Blending historical enquiry and fantasy, the language of poetry is deployed in an attempt to convey the unspeakable words, sounds, music and emotions trapped within the inanimate. But when the hidden soundtrack and memories are excavated, can they be trusted to clarify what we want to find out about our past?