2010-present

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Edited publications

¶Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Founding Editor) (November 2007-present)
¶Fleeting Magazine (Poetry Editor) (July 2011-present)
¶The Criterion (Editor) (April 2011-present)

Essays

¶"It is what it is: some personal reflections", Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (forthcoming, July 2011)
¶"Bathing in a ski-suit: writing in a second language"reprint, English Language as Hydra 2, eds. Vaughan Rapatahana, Pauline Bunce, Bristol: Multilingual Matters. (forthcoming)
¶"Bathing in a ski-suit: writing in a second language", Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (May 2010)
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Reviews
¶"Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre", Stet Journal's Theatre blog (October 2011)
¶"The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art", Stet Journal's Visual and Live Arts blog (February 2011)
¶"Philippe Parreno", Stet Journal's Visual and Live Arts blog (December 2010)
¶"Tribes at the Royal Court", Stet Journal's Theatre blog (November 2010)
¶"Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess Theatre", Stet Journal's Theatre blog (November 2010)
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Dialogues (Co-written)
¶"Reverse metamorphosis" in Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry (4.2, Winter/Spring 2010)
¶"Crabbed youth and age", "Mistake of a small bird" in Canopic Jar (April 2010, issue #24)

Poetry (in books, anthologies, etc.)

¶"Honest diary (Monday 6th September, 2010)" in Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories (forthcoming)

¶"The famine, 1959-62"reprint, "I lay curled on the sofa"reprint, "Glory, repentance"reprint in Asian Poetry in English: An Anthology (Math Paper Press, forthcoming)
¶"His t-shirts"reprint (p. 12), "Minute"reprint (p. 13), "Languages"reprint (p. 14) in Same Difference (J Publishing Company, 2010)
¶"Future bride" (p. 153) in One in a Million: A Collection of Heartfelt Expressions in Verse (Forward Press, 2010)-

Poetry (in journals, magazines, e-zines, etc.)
¶"Your brother, not forgotten"reprint in The Saint Ann's Review (expected, tenth anniversary issue)
¶"How a city is transformed into poems", "Celestial flowers" in 91st Meridian (expected)
¶"Lemminkainen's mother" in James Dickey Review (expected)
¶"Reincarnation" in Word Riot (expected, March 2012)
¶"People samplings" in The Tower Journal (expected, Spring 2012)
¶"No hoarding" in Right Hand Pointing (Issue #49, March 2012)
¶"How can you understand?" in Dinosaur Bees (Issue #4, Winter 2011)
¶"An anatomy of memory", "Something happened" [pdf] in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (December 2011)
¶"A charmed life" in Umbrella Journal (Winter-Spring 2011-2012)
¶"Mythologies" in Everyday Genius (30 September 2011)
¶"The girl whose face is in faux porcelain bowls" in Phantom Kangaroo (September 2011)
¶"Forged memories", "While you are away", "Fisherman in a storm", "Somewhere, tonight" in Raft Magazine (August 2011)
¶"Roseability" [pdf] (p. 31) in The New Writer Magazine (Summer 2011)
¶"Peak District" (pp. 20-21) in Willows Wept Review (Summer 2011)

¶"Reflecting rain", "Two fleeting flying lives" [pdf] in The Adroit Journal (Summer 2011)
¶"Heartbroken because of geography" (p. 14), "The untrained eye" (p. 15) in Floating Bridge Review (Number 4, 2011)
¶"Eschatology: a riddle" in The Nervous Breakdown (29 July 2011)
¶"Official causes of death in a Chinese prison" in Radius (29 July 2011)
¶"Rumours of a first date" in Red River Review (August 2011)
¶"Childhood friend", "To see the world" in 3:AM Magazine (July 2011)
¶"Post mortem" (p. 35) in The Journal (Summer 2011)
¶"Negotiation" in Fleeting Magazine (July 2011)
¶"Street musicians", "Five suggestions for breaking the ice on a London snow-bound first date", "All decent clocks", "Obeah" in Wilderness House Literary Review [pdf] (6:2, July 2011)
¶"Worst fears manifested in laundry", "from Things in my own (bed)room (101)", "Red riding hood and grandmother" in One Imperative (June 2011)
¶"Better than a good friend", "Ocean desires, with reference to Frankenstein" in The Fox Chase Review (June 2011)
¶"Perhaps a second sun" in Ramshackle Review (June 2011)
¶"A captive's dove message to her mother" in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (April 2011)
¶"The soliloquy of the paper ipod maker" (p. 56) in Other Poetry (2011)
¶"First snow" in Apple Valley Review (Spring 2011)
¶"Warming his piano bench", "Dragon" in Poetry Quarterly (Winter 2010, Issue 5)
¶"Written in snow" in Subliminal Interiors (March 2011)
¶"The final straw" in elimae (March 2011) [the poem is inspired by this encounter]
¶"You don't know me" in Dinosaur Bees (Issue #2, February 2011)
¶"Double happiness" in Orbis: Quarterly International Literary Journal (Issue #154, Winter 2010)
¶"Show your face" in Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) (Issue #521, January 2011)

¶"Kissing marble lips" (p. 12), "Outro: debased creatures" (p. 12) in Tengen Magazine (Issue 2, Autumn 2010)
¶"Where were you last night?", "Death sings of his game", "Once born doorknobs" in One Imperative (October 2010) [pdf here]

¶"Dendrochronology" in Willows Wept Review (Fall 2010) [discussed here]

¶"Summer dusk" in Right Hand Pointing (Issue 36, October 2010)

¶"The argument" and "The soliloquy of a street kid" in poeticdiversity (August 2010)
¶"A dream visit to your loitering land" (pp. 24-25) in Inkspill Magazine [pdf here] (July/August/September 2010) [editor's comments: "The featured poems are diverse in form, including a sestina and a glosa, and Tammy Ho Lai-Ming creates a beautiful surrealism with her dream-poem."]

¶"Clichéd Love", "Your silhouette is blasphemous" (p. 12) in The Irish Examiner USA (July and October 2010)

¶"Clichéd Love" (p. ?), "Your silhouette is blasphemous" (p. 10) in The Douglas Post (July and October 2010)

¶"The mildmaid's speech", "It could happen you know", "Future bride"reprint, "Lying Scorpios" in Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (August 2010)

¶"Buy me finery for my funeral" in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (July, 2010)

¶"Self portraits"reprint [pdf] (pp. 135-136) in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (June 2010)
¶"My summer is your winter" in Osprey Journal (Summer 2010)
¶"Caught in the flood" (Co-written) in qarrtsiluni (Friday 2 July, 2010)
¶"Bring a torch" in Everyday Weirdness (Tuesday 15th June, 2010)
¶"A rendezvous on the clouds" in Boston Literary Magazine (June 2010)
¶"I didn't intend to write about sex (after cyril wong)" (pp. 30-31), "Inside the train" (pp. 28-29), "The comfort of strangers" (pp. 26-27), "An equation for a returning husband" (pp. 24-25) (translated into Italian by Tiziano Fratus. all previously published in English.) in Ludwig: cahier di poesia internazionale (May 2010)

¶"The weight of his tongue" in Short, Fast, and Deadly (9 May 2010)
¶"The train" in A Handful of Stone (Tuesday 4th May, 2010) [second part of the poem]

¶"Winter curses", "Boiled frog" in Retort Magazine (Australia, 7 March 2010)
¶"Marvelous banality" in Pedestal Magazine (Issue#56, February-April 2010)
¶"Deceiving the world"reprint in Asia Writes (18 February 2010)
¶"Cupid knows his job"reprint in Bolts of Silk (14 February 2010)
¶"Suggestions for distributing your poems" in GUD Magazine (Winter 2009, issue #10 [February 2010]) [This poem is mentioned here, here, and here.]
¶"A trick of the light" in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (January 2010)
¶"It is impossible to be partially gutted" and "In expectation" in Writers Connect [now defunct] (January 2010)
¶"We don't dread night light" in Robot Melon (issue #10, January 2010)

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Images (see gallery here)

¶"Gingerbread boys" in Reprint Poetry (January 2012)
¶"Hide and seek" in wtf pwm (issue #3.2, August 2011)

¶"Pack of wolves" in Stirring: A Literary Collection (May 2011)
¶"Sisters", "The lost dancer", "Angels in Stockholm" in THIS Literary Magazine (expected, March/April 2011)
¶"Baby chick II", "Bees in motion" in Subliminal Interiors (March 2011)
¶"Stockholm syndrome" (A photography sequence) in The Scrambler (February 2011)
¶"Empty", "Mulled wine" in THIS Literary Magazine (January/February 2011)
¶"Standing on ice" in Stirring: A Literary Collection (January 2011)
¶"Headbroken" in Stirring: A Literary Collection (October 2010)

¶"Baby chick" in Stirring: A Literary Collection (September 2010)
¶"At home" in Stirring: A Literary Collection (July 2010)

¶"Water bottle", "All are open" in The Driftwood Review [pdf] (Issue #7, June 2010)

¶"Half and Half", "Modern three witches" in The Writer's Block [pdf] (Issue #5, 2010)

2010 Literary Publications

2010-present