Onkalo: available online from booksactually.com
ONKALO poems by Bernice Chauly published by Math Paper Press * “Direct, honest and sometimes very powerful” — J M Coetzee Onkalo (meaning ‘cave’ or ‘cavity’) is the world’s first spent nuclear repository, currently being built on the west coast…
Onkalo by Bernice Chauly reviewed by Jennifer Mackenzie
Onkalo by Bernice Chauly (Math Paper Press, 2013) Reviewed by JENNIFER MACKENZIE ‘Say it loud, say it silent’ (Socks) Bernice Chauly’s Onkalo begins with an extraordinary quotation in the preface from Michael Madison, director of Into Eternity, a documentary on…
Winternachten Antilles/Suriname 2010: “A sense of belonging”
‘A sense of belonging’, was the theme of a combined writers’ tour by Winternachten to the Dutch Carribean and Suriname. For two weeks, from 13 to 24 April 2010, writers Bas Heijne (Netherlands), Yasmine Allas (Netherlands/Somalia), Bernice Chauly (Malaysia) and…
Winternachten
Bernice Chauly (Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, 1968) is a Malaysian writer, poet, photographer and teacher. She graduated with a B.Ed in English Literature and TESL in 1990 from the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has published two acclaimed collections of poetry,…
Review of Going There and Coming Back, in Sunday Star
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Translation of “Forgiveness”
Wanted to share this. It’s quite a lovely translation. ‘Forgiveness’ by Bernice Chauly Translated by Kadek Krishna Adidharma for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2008 (see Cultural Cocktails and Emeralds from The Equator for my involvement in this year’s…
Review of The Book of Sins
Taken from a review of The Book of Sins in Kakiseni 19. 03. 2008 The Virtues of Sin by Gabrielle Low I rage into the nightof graffiti and poems In Bernice Chauly’s small but substantial collection of poetry and prose,…
going there and coming back, poems and prose by Bernice Chauly
My first collection of poetry, published by Rhino Press in 1997 picking fruit when i was a child my parents were angels who fell to earth because they wanted to love i…