Any other local poetry forums?

• DeadPoet

  17 Feb 05, 02:01

  Beside Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) is there any other local forums?
  
  Taken from QLRS:
  
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  Although this is a great site, but I am looking for a 'workshop' kind of poetry site that offer suggestions on improving your poems.
  
  Actually they are hundreds of them out there but unfortunately none are local based.
  
  
• LazerLordz

  17 Feb 05, 23:16

  I would love to get published in QLRS one day.Let's all try to get something published there shall we?
• DeadPoet

  18 Feb 05, 02:16

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  I would love to get published in QLRS one day.Let's all try to get something published there shall we?

  Okay sure letÂ’s work towards this goal.
  
  But what I don’t get it is since there are quite a few local poets in Singapore who have achieve international recognition, how come none of them thought of setting up a workshop forum to assist local beginner ‘poets’ like us?
  
• LazerLordz

  18 Feb 05, 18:56

  Thing is, poetry is not a very big thing in Singapore.Look at us, we are more likely to be praised by society if we can design or build monstrosities of brick and steel rather than if we were to sit around the coffee table all table, watching people walk by and penning our thoughts.Too indulgent for society at this moment?I see the tide changing.Slowly but surely.
• DeadPoet

  2 Mar 05, 00:49

  To be frank I have another goal, i.e. to post my poems in one of the workshop forum I have listed in the 'Introduction' thread.
  
  But my poems may not even survived Level 1.
• LazerLordz

  5 Mar 05, 11:29

  I'm going for the2ndRule.com
• DeadPoet

  6 Mar 05, 02:10

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  I'm going for the2ndRule.com

  I am going for Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and Poetry Free-for-all.
• DeadPoet

  6 Mar 05, 02:23

  Hey LazerLordz, seems to me Joanne Leow and you have some similarities in term of poetry styles.
  
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