Alvin Pang

For over a decade, international poets Alvin Pang (Singapore) and George Szirtes (UK) have met time and again-as friends and fellow wordsmiths on page and stage-until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Confined to different sides of the globe, they began to write poems back and forth in response to one another. Reflecting on the circumstances in which we find ourselves living, the two poets dance in language through questions of life and time, with the world teetering from Covid through Black Lives Matters and Brexit to the Ukraine conflict.

I 17 korta sublima prosastycken personifierar den singaporianska poeten Alvin Pang karaktärsdrag och företeelser som Tålamod, Ängslan, Passion, Framgång och Förtvivlan och deras inbördes relationer.Genom att ta de mest talande dragen från andra människor skildrar de allas våra liv, det som ger oss våra namn.

In a series of textured prose currents, UNINTERRUPTED TIME assays confluent moments of familial and intimate relations, tracing the mortal body's insistent and at times devastating transitions.

Poeten Alvin Pang från Singapore bär med sig kulturhistoria från hela världen i sin diktning. Med När barbarerna kommer introduceras denna välöversatta poet på svenska med ett urval som spänner mellan osentimentala kärleksdikter till skarpa satiriska samhällsbilder. Urbant utmanande dikter som hånar och förvirrar, är vackra och fulla av paradoxer, lika internationella som knutna till Singapore. I översättning och med efterord av Henrik C. Enbohm.

This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang's five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at once recognisably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edge and energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore.Alvin Pang was born in Singapore in 1972. A Fellow of Iowa University's International Writing program, his poetry has been translated into more than fifteen languages, and he has appeared at major festivals and in anthologies worldwide. He has edited the anthologies No Other City (2000); Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (2009). Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore's National Arts Council, and was received the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007.