Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang is a Singaporean poet and editor, and Adjunct Professor of RMIT University. Active internationally in literary practice, his writings have been published worldwide in more than twenty languages, including Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene and Swedish. A 2022 Civitella Ranieri Fellow and Dublin Literary Award judge, he serves on the board of several literary organisations, such as the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Studies Institute. Among various engagements, he is editor-in-chief of ETHOS, a practitioner-oriented public policy journal. In 2020, he completed a PhD in Writing with RMIT University, exploring possibilities of literary practice conducted across multiple languages, genres, careers and communities. His recent works include What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017), Uninterrupted time (2019) and Det som ger oss våra namn (2022). Diaphanous, a collaboration with George Szirtes, is forthcoming from Recent Work Press in May 2023.
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My observations and reflections about what my writing has been doing bring me to an understanding of creative practice as an energetic gathering and interacting of multiple fluid doings in confluence—characterised by an impulse towards ongoing movement and change. This framing opens up new questions about the materiality and methods involved in creative practice, and suggests directions for future enquiry: such as the entangled and embodied conditions of writing, and its confluential relations with other practitioners. My accounts of some of the currents that constitute my varied, ongoing, evolving practice—demonstrated with reference to writing activities over the course of my practice research—contribute to innovative ways of thinking about practices and processes in the field of creative writing. They will have particular resonance for fellow writers in Singapore and scholars of Singaporean literary practice, but may be of value to any practitioner who has grappled with multiplicity or identifies with a sense of division in their writing life.