New Worlds Feature

Sudeep Sen read English Literature at the University of Delhi & as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from the Journalism School at Columbia University (New York). His awards, fellowships & residencies include: Hawthornden Fellowship, Pushcart Prize nomination , BreadLoaf, Pleiades, nlpvf Dutch Foundation for Literature, Ledig House, Wolfsberg UBS Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Sanskriti (New […]

Cyril Wong is the author of nine poetry collections and one collection of strange tales. His last work was Satori Blues (Softblow Press 2011). He lives in Singapore and is the founding-editor of SOFTBLOW, an online poetry journal.   Serpent after aesop The serpent glided into an armourer’s shop and scraped across a file. In […]

Satori Blues by Cyril Wong Softblow Press, 2011 ISBN 9789810873615 Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER PHELPS     Symmetry Breaking in Satori Blues   Phrasally, “satori blues” is a sort of tonal totality that balances enlightenment with catharsis, high with low, insight with outsight. Blue is a color, as well as a state of mind. Satori is […]