Incantations/Incarcerations is a rumination on ageing, menopause, losing one’s children to the world, climate change, and the slow decline of the body. In this collection, Bernice Chauly will once again chart the unsayable and the confessional, and speak from places where few dare to write from – of the older woman, desire and loneliness, and of the certainty of death.… Read more
The Virtues of Sin by Gabrielle Low
In Bernice Chauly’s small but substantial collection of poetry and prose, The Book of Sins, words indeed rage forth from the page, and they do so with a searing yet unembellished forcefulness.
It’s hard not to note, first and foremost, the urgent, pounding rhythm to some of the lines in this collection.… Read more
Finally the book is out. It was launched at the ‘readings’ on 26th January at 67tempinis satu.
It’s retailing at RM 24 and should be available in fine bookstores in Malaysia by the end of February.
I am relieved that this is done, that this collection has finally come to and end.… Read more