Author: tzeming

• Essay: Stuck in the middle with you

  —

• Review: The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat

  —

• Poem: All my forms

  All my forms All your baseare in the past andall my formsare obsolete –whacked outgonetypefacewith contrived linebreaks – on theOlivetti ownedby the immigrant familybefore uswho gave up and left,or hand-addressed envelopesstuffed with A4 printoutsand worries overwhat if it doesn’t get therecos of my bad handwriting;or on a little rigid squarecalled a ‘floppy disk’hand-delivered to thestudent…

  —

• Poem: Welcome to my TED talk (about murdering billionaires)

  —

• Essay: After a long silence

  —

• Essay: Race you there

  ‘Race you there’ was kindly republished online in 2024 by Satellites, a living archive project to “connect the past, present and future of Aotearoa Asian art.” Editor Emma Ng writes: “In this first issue, we’re republishing Tze Ming Mok’s iconic essay ‘Race you there’. The piece, which was the joint winner of the Landfall Prize…

  —