Contributors / December 2016 (Issue 34)


 In August 2016, A-FESTIVAL was organised by Kaitlin Rees and Nhã Thuyên of AJAR Press and held in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this special section of the Ninth Anniversary Issue of Cha, we bring together some of the wonderful voices of the festival and celebrate the continuation of its spirit into the new year.​
 
The second gathering of A-FESTIVAL will focus on translation/transnation and will take place in Hanoi in October 2017, co-curated by AJAR Press and Vagabond Press.
 
A-FESTIVAL is an independent mini poetry festival interested in poetic exchange within and across borders and languages. The activities of the festival include personal discussions, collective book launches and public performances that support the communities of poetry everywhere.
 
A-FESTIVAL 2016 was organised by writers behind AJAR press and in partnership with Tranquil, Tadioto, BlueBird Nest coffee, Moon Working Space, Hanoi Doclab, Vietnam Artist's Book Project & IndochinaArtsPartnership, together with the generous support from Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia & Foundation for Community Educational Media (FCEM).
 
Check out A-FESTIVAL and AJAR Press to stay in touch.
 
 
 
Make Our Voices Heard Together: Poetry in Its Community

a melted conversation between Kaitlin Rees and Nhã Thuyên

 
Taste of Water

by Nhã Thuyên

 
They Called Me To The Nation Of Poetry

by Lý Đợi

 
Through The Wood & Hell To Her

by Colin Cheney

 
Happy Idiots

by Maung Day

 
Apples

by Thanh Phùng

 
Allegory Of The Land

translated from Inrasara's Vietnamese original by Alec Schachner

 
Sometimes

by Bernice Chauly

 
Three-Night Stand

by James Shea

 
We the Bubbles

by Quyen Nguyen

 
The Select Centre

by William Phuan

 
With Cloud Parts

by Kaitlin Rees

 
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