The setting for the first workshop is the University of the Philippines in Diliman. There’s a hushed scholarly atmosphere, the audience mostly made up of English department students and academics. The constant thrum of a large air conditioner is regularly broken by the click of an SLR … [Read more...]
Lontar to globally publish selected Indonesian poems, short stories
May 11, 2017 by
The Jakarta-based Lontar Foundation plans to publish anthologies of translated Indonesian poems and short stories from the past century in a bid to promote the country’s literature to the world. Lontar, a small outfit that has previously translated works by local writers for readers across the … [Read more...]
Crossing Bloodlines
May 6, 2017 by
The poems in this collection trace the overlapping cycles of the human journey from birth to death across the space/time habitat we measure in footfalls and poetic metre. Travelled in the company of family and community, our journeys enact the species’ heritage and legacy of kinship and violence – … [Read more...]
Notes about the INDONESIA Special Issue
May 6, 2017 by
When I approached major Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono – godfather of that sprawling nation’s contemporary poetics and a renowned translator of English-language works into Bahasa Indonesia – about working with me on a kind of ‘translation exchange’ to then publish online and promote in our … [Read more...]
Myth and History: Writing from Indonesia
May 6, 2017 by
In October of this year, Indonesia will make its appearance as the guest of honor (GOH) at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF)—the first country from Southeast Asia to be so honored. Because Frankfurt is the largest annual book publishing event in the world, it is, possibly, a once-in-a-lifetime … [Read more...]
