Portside Review

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INTRODUCTION TO ‘FAMILY (1996)’ BY LEOW PUAY TIN 📚 I was curious whether I could now write about a whole clan of women. 🇲🇾Subscribe to access the full history behind the iconic Malaysian play: portsidereview.com/subscribe

KALAU DAH JODOH BY NURUL HUDA MOHD RAZIF 💌 Jodoh, I now understand, encompasses so much more than simply the pleasure of meeting another soul. 🖼️Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif 📔Subscribe to read: portsidereview.com/subscribe

LEAVINGS BY MOHAN AMBIKAIPAKER 🛣️ What if tomorrow I would need to flee the last five-foot way, the last corner kopi tiam & last roadside shrine? Subscribe to read: portsidereview.com/subscribe

COCONUT CANDY BY ADIB FAIZ 🥥 Who knew candy could be an extended metaphor for amalgamation? 🖋️@adibfaiz 🖼️Paperlily Studios Read now: portsidereview.com/free-reads

WONG PHUI NAM ON SALLEH BEN JONED BY ANNA SALLEH 🗣️ “He spoke the truth… He called a spade a spade and people didn’t like it.” 🪸Log in to access pieces are from over twenty amazing contributors: portsidereview.com/account/login

ADAM’S DREAM IN HIS BY SALLEH BEN JONED 🌬️ Those profane, blasphemous drunks and true poets knew it: they too dreamt Adam's dream. 🖼️“Cintamani” by Anoora Subscribe to read more of Salleh Ben Joned’s poetry:portsidereview.com/subscribe

ORCHARD MEMORIES BY DAVID TNEH 🎑 Nonchalantly, you walked with a watering hose to shower the lime trees of your precious toil. 🖼️"Ikan Kelah" by Anoora 🏞️Subscribe to read portsidereview.com/subscribe

KAMI YANG KEKAL BY SOOK JIN ONG 📣 the haze shrouding buyers in palaces, sellers parading promises - we witness you trade our lives. 🖊️@sookjinong 🖼️"Merdeka" by Anoora ⛴️Read more: portsidereview.com/pr-member-area

JUST A GIRL BY LEE KOK LIANG 🌑 Everyone said the moon was lovely. The moon was kind. 🖼️"Anak Dan Ibu" by Anoora Read now! portsidereview.com/pr-member-area

THE WORLD IS NOT MASCULINE BY DANO CHOW 🗺️ hitherto modern man has only reiterated masculinity, sowing enlightenment upon man who do not ask for it ✏️@danochow Subscribe to read: portsidereview.com/subscribe

“SIAPA PICASSO” FROM SAVAGE PUNK ABSTRACTIONISM BY ANOORA CHAPEK, 2022 Malaysian artist Anoora's painting “Siapa Picasso” uses colourful paint strokes to evoke Picasso’s art style. Subscribe to read the introduction to her work: portsidereview.com/subscribe

‘ODE TO SALLEH JONED’ BY LATIF KAMALUDDIN 🎺 🧮Subscribe now to access more of Kamaluddin's original print word art poetry. portsidereview.com/subscribe

MY MESSAGE BY CECIL RAJENDRA 🌾 i want every punctuation --- full-stop, comma and semi-colon to turn into a grain of barley millet, maize, wheat or rice in the mouths of our hungry. 🍲Read now for free: portsidereview.com/free-reads

‘ABOMIDABLE POETRY’ BY LATIF KAMALUDDIN🌨️ the native poet is the poet of the native native poetry is the poetry of the native the abominable law is the law of the snowman the abominable snowman is the law ☃️Read now: portsidereview.com/pr-member-area

HEALING POWER BY MALACHI EDWIN VETHAMAN🌿 He was captivated about learning from nature and its healing powers. ✏️@malachiedwin 🖼️Illustration by Paperlily Studio. Subscribe to read: portsidereview.com/subscribe

BOOK DATE AT A CAFÉ IN MUAR BY JACK MALIK ☕ —we gorge all of the yellow warm lights & the cool estuary’s breeze the night offered, feeding our love. ✏️@jackmalik_pr ⛴️Read more: portsidereview.com/pr-member-area

AGAINST THE WILDNERNESS BY WONG PHUI NAM🌊 When the valley dawned about us, we sensed that we had come, each to our particular end. ⛵Subscribe to read portsidereview.com/subscribe

MALAYSIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH: INFLUENCE AND INDEPENDENCE BY EE TIANG HONG📚 For what does it profit a poet if he gains national honour and loses self-respect? 📖Log in to read the full article: portsidereview.com/pr-member-area

THE STADIUM BY WAN PHING LIM ⛐ The more you avoided a thing, the more power it had over you. Wasn’t that what the minister had preached on Sunday? ✏️@wanphing 🖌️Illustration by Paperlily Studio Read now! portsidereview.com/subscribe

SAMA-SAMA (FROM ‘THOUGHTS ON OUR TONGUES’) BY YEE HENG YEH 🫂 When you say “sama-sama”, do you mean it? Do you mean - that you see yourself in me? ✏️@HengYeh42 Subscribe to read: portsidereview.com/subscribe