Myanmar poetry

Bones Will Crow: Burmese poets Zeyar Lynn & Khin Aung Aye on Close Listening

Charles Bernstein

Close Listening, with Zeyar Lynn, Khin Aung Aye, and James Byrne:

Zeyar Lynn poems:
"My History Is Not Mine": MP3
"Slightly Lopsided but a More Accurate Portrait": MP3
"Big Sister Have You Been to Laiza": MP3

Zeyar Lynn in conversation with Charles Bernstein
(37:35):  MP3

Khin Aung Aye  and James Byrne in conversation with Charles Bernstein:
(53:05): MP3

May 7, 2013

Language-oriented poetry in Myanmar

by Zeyar Lynn

Charles Bernstein

To many people outside Myanmar (Burma), it might come as a surprise that there is such a thing as Language-oriented Poetry in contemporary Myanmar poetry scene. As I happen to be the person responsible (‘the instigator’ / ‘the culprit’) of so-called Language-oriented Poetry in Myanmar, I feel that I should have my say on how this has come about in Myanmar, a country that has been under a military regime for the past 20 years or so.

April 27, 2011
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