[INTERVIEW]: Daryl Lim Wei Jie

In this episode, Hao Yang and Anurak chat with Daryl Lim (author of 'A Book of Changes' and 'Anything But Human') about his oeuvre as well as other topics related to local literature. Daryl answers four of our audience questions: three literary and one ornithological (my favourite). Timestamps: 1:50 defamiliarisation of language in anything but human 3:30 influences on anything but human 4:25 influence of chinese literature 6:05 ‘palette cleansers’ in anything but human 7:40 anything bot human 8:55 nonsensical language 10:35 desert of the real 11:45 inaccessible writing? ideal reader? 13:55 language as medium, as artifice 14:55 the prophet figure 16:45 discount motif 18:15 influence of covid-19 pandemic 20:10 credo 25:40 adapted pantoum 27:05 what has writing anything but human done for you? 31:20 a book of changes 35:35 streets and places of singapore 40:40 inane asylum 43:40 ten year series batch of poets 45:55 advice for young writers 46:35 state of singlit now 48:25 problems and opportunities in singlit 51:05 should we all be anything but human 51:30 why bird?