Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010 - Dipping and Swerving
Poems by Jason Lee, Holly Day, Anthony Robbins, Tammy Ho and Yeow Kai Chai, short stories by Stephanie Ye, Annabeth Leow, Eileen Chong and Ram Govardhan, reviews of Writing Singapore, Wena Poon, C.K. Williams and Lydia Kwa, an essay on the mise en abyme in The Aspern Papers and L'Ecole de la Chair, and the Acid Tongue looks at the trouble with Billy Collins.

Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010 - Under the firelight, under the brush
Poems by Cyril Wong, George Moore, Jal Nicholl and Andrew Burke, short stories by Alfian Sa'at, Jason Erik Lundberg, Wang Yisi and Angie Ho Guyoton, reviews of Koh Jee Leong, David Oliveira, David Fedo and Mary O'Donnell, an essay on the judicial opinions in fairy tales, an interview with Fiona Sze-Lorain, and the Acid Tongue doing trailers.

Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010 - Much in danger, oft in woe
Poems by Keith Flynn, Tammy Ho, Joanne Leow, Yvonne Koh and Lee Jing-Jing , short stories by Lee Wei Fen, Miguel Ángel Mendo, Philip Holden, Lee Yew Leong and Lee Jing-Jing, reviews of Tumasik, Reflecting on the Merlion and Interlogue 8, and the Acid Tongue watches William Logan savaging Louise Glück.

Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009 - Sound the Retreat
Poems by Pat Galvin, John Mateer, Mark A. Murphy and Gan See Siong, short stories by Jessica Tan, Fadzlishah Johanabas Rosli, Lee Yew Leong and Jason Erik Lundberg, Lee Yew Leong examining the mise en abyme in A.S. Byatt's Matisse Stories, reviews of Double Skin, Boey Kim Cheng and Gilbert Koh, and the Acid Tongue looks at Theatreworks's Edinburgh Festival flop.

Vol. 8 No. 3 Jul 2009 - City and Culture
Poems by Judith Huang, Lee Yew Leong, Eddie Tay and Christian Tablazon, short stories by Nazry Bahrawi, O Thiam Chin, Nirmala Iswari and Damyanti Ghosh, Gwee Li Sui looking at a recent parliamentary citation of Voltaire, an audio recording by Bani Haykal, night-time photographs of Seoul, and the Acid Tongue looks at Tom Cho having his culture popped.

Vol. 8 No. 2 Apr 2009 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Poems by Arthur Leung, Yeow Kai Chai, Cyril Wong, Jill Jones and Erik Ta, short stories by Wena Poon, Caroline Baab and Gordon J. Reynolds, a review of Simon Tay's City of Small Blessings, a painting by Ernest Williamson III, and the Acid Tongue looks at Rachel Cusk getting a little too much Tuscan sunshine.

Vol. 8 No. 1 Jan 2009 - Crunch Time
Poems by Rodrigo V. Dela Peña, Reid Mitchell, Bernard Henrie and Erik Ta, short stories by Lee Yew Leong, O Thiam Chin and Timothy Yang, an essay by Suchen Christine Lim on the contest for Singapore's urban future, a review of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, a review of Flare, and the Acid Tongue declawing The White Tiger.

Vol. 7 No. 4 Oct 2008 - If resources were no object
Poems by Michelle Cahill, Devika Rege, Lee Yew Leong and Gianni Marchetti, short stories by James Stark and Damon Chua, an essay on reading Ashbery by Christopher Mulrooney, a review of Toh Hsien Min's Means to an End, a play by Brennan Kwa, and the Acid Tongue on A.A. Gill.

Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008 - Pages and Cages
Poems by Adam Aitken, Bernard Henrie and four Italian poets, short stories by Michael Fessler, Roberto Drummond and Abhishek Mehrotra, an essay on the strangeness of English by Jean Tan, a review of Pranav S. Joshi's Behind a Cultural Cage, a photographic travelogue by Amy Lai, theatre reviews by Richard Lord and Amos Toh, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008 - Rewards and Responsibilities
Poems by Jeffery Lee, Daniel Andersson, Neha Sood, and Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr, short stories by Joson Ng, Pek Wen Jie, Robert Raymer and G.J. Reynolds, an essay on the influence of Keats by Boey Kim Cheng, reviews of Wena Poon's Lions In Winter and the Australia-Singapore anthology Over There, a photography selection by Stephen Black, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008 - Firing Up The Engine Again
Poems by Arthur Yap, Regina Derieva, Ed Higgins and Judith Huang, short stories by The Illusionist - National Short Story Writing Contest winners, an essay on Euripides' Bacchae, review of Ng Yi-Sheng's Last Boy, interview with playwright Huzir Sulaiman, the usual theatre reviews, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007 - Que Sais-Je
Poems by Richard Hillman, Koh Tsin Yen, Michelle Lim and Jal Nicholl, short stories by Paul Tan and Kirsten Han, an essay on linguistic exile in Shirley Lim, review of Wong Phui Nam's Collected Poems, the usual theatre reviews, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006 - Visual Purple
Poems by Adam Aitken, Yeow Kai Chai, Heng Siok Tian and Felix Cheong, short stories by Paul Tan, Yong Shu Hoong, Bryan Swan and Sharanya Manivannan, an essay on Singapore architecture in the media, reviews of Yeow Kai Chai, Paul Tan and Vivienne Yeo, the usual theatre reviews, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006 - The Vacuum of Loss
Poems by Terry Jaensch, Koh Beng Liang, Jason Wee and Teng Qian Xi, short stories by Gary Langford, Alfie Lee and Hari Kumar, an essay and an editorial on Arthur Yap, the usual theatre reviews and one hard rock review, and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006 - Ballot The Blue Sky
Poems by Sid Gómez Hildawa, Nicholas Liu, Neha Sood and Stephan B. Delbos, short stories by Lynn Huang, Louis Malloy and Tham Yoke Peng, essays on the tragedy of the democratic state by Ken Kwek and the tragedy of the state of poetry in Singapore by Leonard Ng, reviews of Shirley Lim's Sister Swing and Sid Gómez Hildawa's Regarding Space, the usual theatre reviews and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006 - Nevertheless
Poems by Teng Qian Xi, Koh Tsin Yen, Cheong Lee San, Kent MacCarter and Musa Karim, short story by Tania de Rozario, essay on views of Japan by Lynn Huang, reviews of Yong Shu Hoong's Frottage, the usual theatre reviews and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005 - The Upside of Risk
Poems by Darran Anderson, Ng Shing Yi, Ng Yi-Sheng, Khoo Peng-Ean, Keith Flynn and Kevin Simmonds, short stories by Daren Shiau, Chan Ziqian and Joji Jacob, essay on Akira Kurosawa's Ran by Ng Teng Kuan, reviews of Interlogue 5, The Secret Goldfish and Other Follies, The Flight of the Swans, Kafka on the Shore and more, the usual theatre reviews and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005 - Knocking At Midnight
Poems by Pat Galvin, Stephen Oliver, Lincoln O'Neill, Cyril Wong, Yeow Kai Chai and Edlyn Ang, short stories by Chan Ziqian, Michael Hu and Ioannis Gatsiounis, essay on Aeschylus by Ken Kwek, review of Sense of the Inevitable, review of modern Chinese artist Mu Xin, Richard Lord's theatre reviews and the Acid Tongue.

Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005 - Fundamental Stress
Poems by Tim Keane, Allan Johnston, Kirby Wright, Linda Benninghoff and Koh Tsin Yen, short stories by Marshall J. Getz, Peter Vaudry-Brown and John Gorman, essay by Ken Kwek, reviews of fiftythree/zerothree, A Lover's Soliloquy, From Where I'm Standing, Cleavage and Never Let Me Go, interview with Michael Chiang, Richard Lord's theatre reviews and an Acid Tongue special on the Singapore Dance Theatre.

Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005 - Passions and Insecurities
Poems by Michael Fessler, Bridget-Rose Lee, Rachel Curzon, Cyril Wong and Ma Shaoling, short stories by Rachel Curzon and Corey Mesler, essay by Farah Aida, reviews of idea to ideal, Cloud Atlas, and Malaysian and Filipino poetry, interview with Anchee Min, Richard Lord's theatre reviews and more.

Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004 - No Guiltless Territory
Poems by Yong Shu Hoong, Joanne Leow, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Bryan Thao Worra and Grace Chua, short stories by Charles Lowe, Robert Yeo, Joji Jacob and Serena Alibhai, essays by John Rothfork and Masturah Alatas, review of Madeleine Marie Slavick, interviews with Lynne Truss and Mark Billingham, the usual theatre reviews and more.

Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004 - Content(Manage)ment
Poems by Amari Hamadene, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Jan Oskar Hansen and Bridget-Rose Lee, short stories by Daren Shiau, Neil Grimmett and Tom Thompson, essay by Tan Wee Cheng, reviews of Poems of the Masters, Kee Thuan Chye, Mani Rao and Rebecca Edwards, interview with Goenawan Mohamad, and the usual theatre reviews and more.

Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004 - Moving On Up
Poems by Koh Tsin Yen, Ng Teng Kuan, Brandon Lee, Kirby Wright and Oswald LeWinter, short stories by Marshall J. Getz, G.J. Reynolds and Jerry Vilhotti, reviews of Contouring, unmarked treasure, The Sea in Blossom and Sanskrit of the Body, interviews with Frieda Hughes and Adam Williams, reviews of Singapore theatre, among others.

Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004 - Back on the Chaingang
Poems by Grace Chua, Cyril Wong, Gilbert Koh, Edlyn Ang and Ken Lee, short stories by Chan Ziqian, Joji Jacob and Yongsoo Park, essay by Ronald Klein, reviews of The Gunpowder Trail and Other Stories, The Ocean of Ambition, Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective and Losing Oneself in Remote Asia, interview with Bernardine Evaristo, reviews of Singapore theatre, among others.

Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003 - The Great Unravelling
Poems by Mark Pirie, W.B. Keckler, Ronny Someck, Oswald LeWinter and Charles Lowe, short stories by Chan Ziqian, Neil Grimmett and Daren Shiau, essays by Ng Teng Kuan, Amy Lai, Miguel Jaime Ongpin and Toh Hsien Min, review of a single headlamp, reviews of Singapore drama, among others.

Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003 - At a Crossroads
Poems by Amjad Nasser, D.J. Huppatz, Alvin Pang, Grace Chua and Stephen Oliver, short story by Ng Shing Yi, essays by Ng Shing Yi, Lee Seow Ser and Amy Lai, reviews of City of Rain, No Visitors Allowed, Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover, PIE to SPOILT and The Manic Memoirs of Terry Ho, reviews of Singapore Arts Festival and local drama, among others.

Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003 - Liberation and Deliberation
Poems by Zhang Ruihe, Eugene Datta, Ng Shing Yi and Yeow Kai Chai, short stories by Desmond Kwok and Ma Shaoling, essays by Daniel de Roulet and Wendy Gan, reviews of From Boys to Men, Broken By The Rain, People Like Us and Life and Death in Changi, interview with Felix Cheong, reviews of Singapore drama and performance art, among others.

Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003 - Render Unto Caesar
Poems by Koh Jee Leong, Alvin Pang and a host of new voices, short stories by Heng Siok Tuan, Hong Wee and Bonnie J. Glover, essays by Alice Mendoza and Michael Zeller, review of below: absence, interview with Koh Buck Song, a Javascript poem, reviews of Singapore drama, among others.

Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002 - Bounded in a Nutshell
Poems by Angeline Yap, Gilbert Koh, Jerome Kugan, Aaron Lee, Alvin Pang, short stories by Wena Poon, Sheri Kristen Goh and Bonnie J. Glover, essays by Teng Qian Xi and Alice Mendoza, reviews of dowhile, last three women, Singapore Literature: A Critical Reader, more Singapore drama, among others.

Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002 - Home and Away
Poems by Koh Jee Leong, Joanne Leow, Chris Mooney Singh, short stories by Eileen Chew, Ng Shing-Yi and Eugene Datta, essays by Gui Wei Hsin and Toh Hsien Min, reviews of Maiden, The Merlion and the Hibiscus and Postmodern Singapore, interviews with Stella Kon and Haresh Sharma, Singapore Arts Festival Special, among others.

Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002 - The New Babel
Poems by Leonard Schwartz, Felix Cheong, Gilbert Koh, Karen Low, short stories by Cyril Wong and Michael Chu, essay by Zia Zaman, review of Got Singapore!, interview with Alvin Pang and Yong Shu Hoong, among others.

Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002 - On the rebound
Poems by Stephen Pain, Wendy Gan, Cyril Wong, Daren Shiau, short stories by Agnes Lam and Hong Wee, essays by Eddie Tay and Cyril Wong, review of The End of His Orbit, interview with David Mitchell, among others.

Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001 - The horror the horror
Poems by John Tranter, Arthur Yap, Alvin Pang, Yeow Kai Chai, Gilbert Koh, essays by Eddie Tay and Tan Hwee Hwee, reviews of Electric Light and The Beauty of the Husband, our first instalments of The Singaporean Poem and The Classic Poem, among others.

Beta Issue - Pushing the envelope
This slim issue containing poems by new voices and an interview with Bob Perelman kicks off the QLRS site.

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