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In this episode, Hao Yang and Anurak chat with Daryl Lim (author of 'A Book of Changes' and 'Anything But Human') about his oeuvre as well as other topics related to local literature. Daryl answers four of our audience questions: three literary and one ornithological (my favourite).

Timestamps:

1:50 defamiliarisation of language in anything but human

3:30 influences on anything but human

4:25 influence of chinese literature

6:05 ‘palette cleansers’ in anything but human

7:40 anything bot human

8:55 nonsensical language

10:35 desert of the real

11:45 inaccessible writing? ideal reader?

13:55 language as medium, as artifice

14:55 the prophet figure

16:45 discount motif

18:15 influence of covid-19 pandemic

20:10 credo

25:40 adapted pantoum

27:05 what has writing anything but human done for you?

31:20 a book of changes

35:35 streets and places of singapore

40:40 inane asylum

43:40 ten year series batch of poets

45:55 advice for young writers

46:35 state of singlit now

48:25 problems and opportunities in singlit

51:05 should we all be anything but human

51:30 why bird?