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Tim Tim Cheng

@timtimtmi.bsky.social

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Poet, Translator, Editor, Lecturer 🦥 The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) 🐸 Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023) 🐙 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program 🐌 glasgow / hk / IG@mymothercalls / timtimcheng.com

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Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Tickets for our workshops are on a sliding scale (HKD 0/150/250). Free for people who face severe financial difficulties. No need for proof. If you wish to support our cause, there is an option to pay-it-forward on our event page. Your donation will fund free places at our workshops.

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Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Dr Joshua Ip is a poet, editor, and literary organiser. His latest book, ownself say ownself (Landmark Books, 2024) won Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Awards 2025. He is the Executive Director of Sing Lit Station. www.joshuaip.com

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Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Join award-winning poet Joshua Ip to explore formal poetry from the sonnet to the haiku to liwuli. The @asiancha.bsky.social workshop is open to all at a sliding scale. Tickets: bit.ly/writewithjoshua

Join award-winning poet Joshua Ip to explore formal poetry from the sonnet to the haiku to liwuli. The workshop is open to all.

Workshop details:
Award-winning poet Joshua Ip introduces you to the intricate world of formal poetry, and why poets from Shakespeare to Li Bai write in form. You will be exposed to rarely-seen formal poems. You will then progressively experience how writing in form can loosen up poetic muscles not usually exercised; from the haiku to more complex forms like the liwuli and the sonnet. You will also have opportunity to receive feedback on your newly-written drafts. The workshop will enable people new to writing poetry to try out formal poetry writing. They will be equipped with the skills to identify and apply literary techniques in formal poetry. The workshop is also open to more experienced poets who wish to learn the techniques associated with formal poetry.

Workshop facilitator's bio:
Dr Joshua Ip is a Singaporean poet, editor, and literary organiser. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut, sonnets from the singlish (Math Paper Press, 2012), placed in three different categories of the Golden Point Award, and received Singapore’s Young Artist Award in 2017.His latest book, ownself say ownself (Landmark Books, 2024) gathers new and selected poems from his six-ish collections of rude poetry, and won Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Awards 2025. He is the Executive Director of Sing Lit Station, an overactive literary charity that runs initiatives including SingPoWriMo, and poetry.sg. He still wants to be a writer when he grows up. www.joshuaip.com

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