The Middle Distance: A Reflection on Craft and Art

Authors

  • Boey Kim Cheng, University of Newcastle, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v6i2.256

Abstract

In The Breaking of Style Helen Vendler examines the point in three poets’ careers when a radical departure from an established style occurs, often in response to a crisis or a change in orientation to art and life. For me the moment of rupture or reversal occurred with the act of migration. From movement and departure, my work has gravitated to a poetic of return and homecoming. The essay attempts to identify this moment of change, and also traces the threads of continuity, the abiding influences from my beginnings as a writer, and which are continuing to shape my emigrant life and work.

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Author Biography

Boey Kim Cheng, University of Newcastle, Australia

Boey Kim Cheng emigrated from Singapore in 1997. He lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published five collections of poetry and a travel memoir entitled Between Stations.

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Published

2012-12-15

How to Cite

Cheng, University of Newcastle, Australia, B. K. (2012). The Middle Distance: A Reflection on Craft and Art. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 6(2), 19–30. https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v6i2.256

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2012): December

Section

Articles on Asia Pacific Poetry

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