The Singapore Literature Prize winner is on a roll, winning award after award for his poems and fiction.
25 Aug 2016
Tag: Desmond Kon
UrbanWire celebrates 2016 by giving away 4 hampers!
04 Jan 2016
Last year’s Poetry World Cup winner Desmond Kon will show up at least half a dozen times in this year’s Singapore Writers Festival that begins Oct 30, as panel moderator, editor/host of walking tours, reader, editor/author of 3 books.
Poet and novelist Desmond Kon scores against China and goes through to the 2nd round of the Poetry World Cup 2014.
22 Jun 2014
10 eminent authors are invited to do an ekphrasis for the Eye, Feel, Write program.
05 May 2014
Alfian Sa’at, one of Singapore’s most controversial and feted writers, whose 3 plays are on stage this month, tells UrbanWire his secret for being prolific and what he’d say to Lee Kuan Yew.
We present the mastery of Desmond Kon’s literary works. An audio recording, poems and a track from the audio book, How to Read a Poem
16 Jun 2009
How does a Singaporean poet who picked up pottery months ago get his works accepted in prestigious overseas collections of the Dalai Lama, Albert Camus and America’s oldest poetry magazine? UrbanWire quizzes Desmond Kon on this and his thoughts on the literary scene in the US and Singapore.
16 Jun 2009