Veisse Pharmacy & Brave Girl Street
Richard Milazzo
Poetry from Richard Milazzo
Category: Fiction & Poetry
From sea to mulberry fields
Son Nam
Translated fiction from southern Vietnam
Tsunami, Family photoshoot & Spooky action at a distance
Maung Day
Poetry from Maung Day
The clock’s wink
Catriona Knapman
Poetry from Catriona Knapman
One day, there is Mother and Radian
Avianti Armand
A short story from Avianti Armand
‘Trail’ & ‘Mane of sadness’
Acep Zamzam Noor
Poetry from Acep Zamzam Noor
A country is family
Bryan Thao Worra
Poetry from Bryan Thao Worra
Lost in Gokanosho
Wayne McCallum
Gokanosho is not just a place; it’s also a state of mind
This Time
Sreehevi Iyer
Fiction: On the eve of Malaysia’s general election, Mahathir visits Anwar in hospital.
Poetry of Darkness
David Scott Mathieson
Maung Day’s exhibition Complicit is a bleak reflection of Myanmar’s troubled society
Poetry
Phung Khac Bac
Poems by Phung Khac Bac
Marginalia
Theophilus Kwek
A poem by Theophilus Kwek
Firefly
Michael Freeman
Exploring grief and defiance in North Korea
Poetry
Benjamin Bartu
Poetry from Benjamin Bartu.
Two years later
David Chandler
Poetry from David Chandler.
Fleas and lice
Richard Milazzo
Poetry by Richard Milazzo.
Aubade with burning city
Ocean Vuong
He fills a teacup with champagne, brings it to her lips.
Poetry
Moe Way, Maung Shin Saw, Maung Sein Win
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
Coma-tose
Nguyen Quan
New poetry from Nguyen Quan
Eulogy for the street
Liam Moore
Poetry by Liam Moore
Mosquito song
Raghavendra Madhu
New poetry from Raghavendra Madhu
The humaniser
Tillman Miller
In the wake of Donald Trump, writing about refugees has become a political act.
Winter 1954
Tran Dan
Tran Dan’s classic war novel, Crossroads and Lampposts, in English for the first time.
Poetry
Soe Nay Lynn, Amy Doffegnies
“Soe Nay Lynn”, “Vignette” “Pay Pay* at Phoe Htoo Teashop” & “The sky and its two stars”
Poetry
Ko Ko Thett, Maw Shein Win, Steve Gilmartin
“after the lie of art” & “i hate programming without free will”
Poetry
Ocean Vuong, David Chandler
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
The stubborn writer
Khai Q Nguyen
Few people outside of Vietnam have heard of Nguyen Binh Phuong
Made in Cambodia
Robert Horne
As Malee jumped down from the tuk-tuk she felt the clamour all around her …
Poetry
Maung Sein Win (Padigon), Scott Bywater, Ngyuen Binh Phuong, Bunkong Tuon, Chath Piersath
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
Một nhà văn lì lợm
Khai Q. Nguyen
Trò chuyện với Nguyễn Bình Phương
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
Poetry
Monica Sok, Ravi Shankar
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
The Viet bride
Trang Ha
I would forever remember Dan’s silence. Silently loving me. Silent before my family’s insults and dissuasion.
Poetry
Maung Chaw Nwe, Sokunthary Svay
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
Sweet humdrum days
Connla Stokes
Hanoi at the dawn of the new millennium
The anarchist
Soth Polin
Oh my dear, how still you lie, spread-eagled in the white snow that’s stained with the scarlet pools of your blood …
Poetry
Scott Bywater
A poem by Scott Bywater
To smile
Colin Cotterill
Said a tourist, “I have to refute, That the durian should count as a fruit …”