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Singapore Writers Festival: Thoughtful sentiment in Goh Poh Seng poetry readings and humour with John Patrick Green
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Backed by a live jazz band, poet Cyril Wong read unpublished works by the late novelist and cultural entrepreneur Goh Poh Seng.
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SINGAPORE - The Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) began with a mix of thoughtful sentiment and humour.
The evening of Nov 17, There’s No Cause For Grief: Reading Goh Poh Seng In 2023 saw poet Cyril Wong opening the session with a spoken word piece about the last encounter he had with the late novelist and cultural entrepreneur in 2007, the last they spoke before Goh died in 2010.
