Tembusu College Student’s Workshop

Mr Eric Tinsay Valles

7:30pm, Wednesday

21st January 2015

Common Lounge

Only 15 Seats Available!

More About Mr. Valles:

Mr. Valles draws inspiration from all the places that has called home. His poetry has been features in & words, Reflecting on the Merlion, Ceriph, Southeast Asian Review of English, Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and other journals. His critical essays have appeared in The Asiatic and Writing Diaspora.

Mr. Valles has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne and Oxford Universities. He has taken up writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Centre, Centrum (Washington) and Wellspring House (Massachusetts). He has won a Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing prize for poems that form the core of his second poetry collection. After the Fall (dirges among ruins). His previous poetry collection is World in Transit.

Highlights: The Poet’s Business: Putting everyday words in motion

Published poet Eric Tinsay Valles will explore the use of everyday language as a “malleable” material for poetry. Poetry weds concrete language (not necessarily highfaluting) to music in a way that sends everyday words bumping along. In the words of Theodore Roethke, “A small thing well done is better than a pretentious failure.” Fortunately, verse sense and an ear for rhythm are gifts that can be developed. Valles will give tips and conduct exercise that will enable the beginning writer to create poetry for everyday life.