(Part 1 of 3) Hao Yang and Anurak chat with Daryl Lim about Anything But Human and other relevant concerns.

Hao Yang reads 'age of miracles' (from Anything But Human) by Daryl Lim Wei Jie.

In this episode, Hao Yang and Anurak chat with Daryl Lim (author of 'A Book of Changes' and 'Anything But Human') about his oeuvre as well as other topics related to local literature. Daryl answers four of our audience questions: three literary and one ornithological (my favourite).

Timestamps:

1:50 defamiliarisation of language in anything but human

3:30 influences on anything but human

4:25 influence of chinese literature

6:05 ‘palette cleansers’ in anything but human

7:40 anything bot human

8:55 nonsensical language

10:35 desert of the real

11:45 inaccessible writing? ideal reader?

13:55 language as medium, as artifice

14:55 the prophet figure

16:45 discount motif

18:15 influence of covid-19 pandemic

20:10 credo

25:40 adapted pantoum

27:05 what has writing anything but human done for you?

31:20 a book of changes

35:35 streets and places of singapore

40:40 inane asylum

43:40 ten year series batch of poets

45:55 advice for young writers

46:35 state of singlit now

48:25 problems and opportunities in singlit

51:05 should we all be anything but human

51:30 why bird?

Hao Yang reads '21 July, 1964' (from A Book of Changes) by Daryl Lim Wei Jie.

Hao Yang reads 'A Phenomenological Cookbook' (from Anything But Human) by Daryl Lim Wei Jie.

Hao Yang reads Thirst by Alice Jones, and discusses it with Jovan and Girish.

Girish reads Thirst by Mary Oliver, and discusses it with Hao Yang and Jovan.

Jovan reads April 6, Wednesday by Jee Leong Koh, and discusses it with Hao Yang and Girish.

Hao Yang reads Pilgrim Crow by Crispin Rodrigues, and discusses the poem with Jovan and Girish.

Jovan, Girish, and Hao Yang read and discuss a whopping four poems for the topic of 'Thirst'--Pilgrim Crow by Crispin Rodrigues, April 6, Wednesday by Jee Leong Koh, Thirst by Mary Oliver, and Thirst by Alice Jones.