Waxing poetic: A Bengali tale in Singapore
In 2003, I left my freelance journalist job in Dhaka for work in Singapore as a construction supervisor. My wife, Jui, and son, Zarif, stayed behind in Bangladesh. Coming to Singapore, I brought with me my love for poetry, journalism and photography. Outside my work hours, I would read up on Singapo...
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sg-smu-ink.lien_research-11362018-03-13T03:50:39Z Waxing poetic: A Bengali tale in Singapore Khokan, Zakir Hossain In 2003, I left my freelance journalist job in Dhaka for work in Singapore as a construction supervisor. My wife, Jui, and son, Zarif, stayed behind in Bangladesh. Coming to Singapore, I brought with me my love for poetry, journalism and photography. Outside my work hours, I would read up on Singapore and explore the local literary and poetry scene. In Bangladesh, one can readily fi nd poems published in books and newspapers; however, I could not fi nd a single poem in any of Singapore's newspapers, and this gave me the initial impression that Singaporeans do not like poetry. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/130 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_research/article/1136/viewcontent/waxing.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Social Space eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Creative Writing Poetry |
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In 2003, I left my freelance journalist job in Dhaka for work in Singapore as a construction supervisor. My wife, Jui, and son, Zarif, stayed behind in Bangladesh. Coming to Singapore, I brought with me my love for poetry, journalism and photography. Outside my work hours, I would read up on Singapore and explore the local literary and poetry scene. In Bangladesh, one can readily fi nd poems published in books and newspapers; however, I could not fi nd a single poem in any of Singapore's newspapers, and this gave me the initial impression that Singaporeans do not like poetry. |
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