Foreword 2025

Esplanade Presents

Storytelling

Poems from a Girlhood Archive

Laura Jane Lee (Singpore/Scotland)

25 Mar 2025, Tue, 6.45pm & 7.45pm

30mins

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Concourse

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Synopsis
Synopsis

As a full-time girl and a part-time poet, Laura Jane Lee dives into the archives—the intimately personal, but also the collective—simultaneously interpreting and defining the lived experiences of her girlhood. Poems from a Girlhood Archive is a celebration of girlhood as much as it is a vindication. This selection of poetry readings seeks to reflect the various facets of the poet's girlhood with a confessional bent, tracking an arc from the childhood bedroom to the bridal chamber, and from the terrains of grief and exile to the expanses of joy and unmooring.

Language: English
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Artist Information

Laura Jane Lee

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Laura Jane Lee is a Hong Kong-born poet and voiceover artist, currently based in both Singapore and Scotland. She is a winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize under her birth name, and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Her work has been featured in Poetry London, Ambit and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. She has read at festivals in Singapore, Rotterdam, and Berlin. Laura Jane is the Editor-in-Chief of sploosh!'s Magazine and serves as Marketing Editor on the poetry.sg team. Her most recent pamphlet flinch & air was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2021.

Date & Time

25 Mar 2025, Tue

6.45pm

Esplanade Concourse

7.45pm

Esplanade Concourse
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