Name: Country Roads to Coney Island: Write Your Poem Inspired by Songs of Places
Start: 2024-10-26T10:00:00+08:00
End: 2024-10-26T12:00:00+08:00
Location: Our Tampines Hub

Country Roads to Coney Island: Write Your Poem Inspired by Songs of Places

Vertical Submarine is an art collective that does cross-disciplinary projects, which incorporate painting, theatre, installation and curating, to explore methods of storytelling through words and images.

Vertical Submarine

A literary programme for all backgrounds interested in writing poetry Inspired by music lyrics.

Our Tampines Hub

'A Few Little Words : Stories of Tampines' Running from 13 October to 1 December 2024, Our Tampines Hub presents a series of writers’ workshops led by Vertical Submarine that will serve as a creative incubator for the community, drawing from everyday experiences and cultural heritage to inspire new narratives that reflect the unique spirit of Tampines. Held in conjunction with the Singapore’s Writers’ Festival (SWF), our lineup of local writers — Wayne Ree, Yeow Kai Chai, Nadiputra, Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, and Chow Teck Seng — covers genre-based storytelling across horror, music and poetry, Bangsawan, comics and illustration, and more. Residents from all walks of life and backgrounds are welcome to learn, explore and experiment.The programme will culminate in a publication co-edited by Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and Vertical Submarine, offering a curated collection of stories that resonate with the collective memory and imagination of Tampines residents released in March 2025. "A Few Little Words" aims to honour the past, capture the present, and inspire the future, one story at a time. This is a chance for all passionate storytellers and aspiring writers to have a chance to have their works published. -

About the Workshop Poetry and music have been intertwined since time immemorial. In this workshop focusing on songs by singer-songwriters such as Taylor Swift, John Denver and Sinéad O’Connor, we explore how poetry and lyrics can evoke a sense of location, memory, and emotion, turning familiar or strange surroundings into a rich source of lyrical inspiration. Through form, theme, and imagery, participants learn to compose their own poems/verses that capture the essence of a place in time – whether real or imagined – blurring the line between the written word and song. Session 1 Date: 23 Oct 2024 Time: 7pm - 9pm Venue: SPACE, Level 2 – Lobby B. OTH Session 2 Date: 26 Oct 2024 Time: 10am - 12pm Venue: Function Room 2, Level 4 - Lobby F, OTH -

About the Facilitator Yeow Kai Chai is a poet, prose writer, editor, and the former Festival Director of Singapore Writers Festival. He has three poetry collections: Secret Manta (2001); Pretend I’m Not Here(2006); and One to the Dark Tower Comes (2020), which was awarded the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He has worked as editor-in-chief, entertainment editor and music critic in The Straits Times, My Paper and 8 Days, for nearly three decades. He co-wrote Lilla Torg: A Scandinavian Journey (2023); Lost Bodies: Poems Between Portugal and Home (2016); and The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015), with three other authors. A co-editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, he was Poet in Residence in 2020 at the poetry festival, Poetry on the Move, based in Canberra, Australia.

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