Eric Tinsay Valles
Eric Tinsay Valles has published two poetry collections, A World in Transit[1] and After the Fall: dirges among ruins[2][3] (shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize), and co-edited the 2015 Singapore Writers Festival bestseller Get Lucky anthology of Singapore-Philippine writings [4] [Ethos Books]. His poems have appeared in Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, the Hispanic Culture Review, Jet Fuel Review, Reflecting on the Merlion, & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond,[5] Under the Storm Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry and the Southeast Asian Review of English.[6] He has won prizes in the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition (2013)[7] and the British Council’s Writing the City competitions (2011).[citation needed]
Career[edit]
His critical work is featured in The Creativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century, Writing Diaspora and The Asiatic.[8][9] He has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne University and Oxford University.[10] He has taken up writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Centrum in Washington state, and Wellspring House (Massachusetts).[11] He writes about the migrant experience and personal trauma with humour and empathy.
Awards and recognition[edit]
His Singapore Literature Prize[12]-shortlisted After the Fall (dirges among ruins) [Ethos Books, 2014][2][3] is a poetry collection that takes stock of motivations for violence as well as of the means by which victims can pick up the pieces from the resulting brutality and loss. Envisioned as a dialogue with the thinkers St. Augustine and Walter Benjamin, the book gives witness to hurt or pain through the perception of everyday objects and nature scenes. Sections of the book are a meditation on life in a frenetic, modern metropolis that harks back to a rosy, lost time when personal bonds were strong and the individual was cheery about the future. Survivors in such a cityscape resort to cultural improvisation in the face of the consciousness of rootlessness.
References[edit]
- ↑ Valles, Eric Tinsay. "A World in Transit". Ethos Books. Ethos Books. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tan, Doretta (March 13, 2015). "After The Fall: Dirges Among Ruins". npTribune. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Valles, E.T. (2014). After the Fall: Dirges Among Ruins. ISBN 978-981-09-2273-3. Retrieved May 21, 2016. Search this book on
- ↑ "Arts Picks: Mind Your (Inter-) Culture". Straits Times. May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
- ↑ Ng, Yi-Sheng. "Singapore Writing Today". Writing the City. British Council in SIngapore. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
- ↑ "Interview with Eric Tinsay Valles". Ethos Books. November 14, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ NUS. "Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition 2013". NUS. NUS. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
- ↑ Anjum, Zafar (November 3, 2015). "Posts about Eric Tinsay Valles on". Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Review of Dominique Hecq (ed), The Creativity Market TEXT Vol 17 No 2". TEXT Journal Vol 20 No 1. October 2, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Writing Diaspora: Transnational Memories, Identities and Cultures" (PDF). Inter-disciplinary Net. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Studio Center, Vermont (May 21, 2015). "Vermont Studio Center". Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Lee, Jian Xuan. "Graphic Novel Gets Nod for Lit Prize". Straits Times. SPH. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
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