The Tiger Moth Review

An independent eco journal of art + lit based in Singapore. Publishes bi-annually. EIC & Founder: @EstherVincentXM *Subs now closed* Posts by Ethan L

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Issue 16 is now live!

Cover image: Lee Zhi Heng (Singapore)

Issue 16 is all about #listening and #slowness, and features our first sound work by Li-Chuan Chong.

Read: https://t.co/o4khuNRSd2

#thetigermothreview #ecopoetry #ecoliterature #ecojournal #litmag #environmental

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@TASNewsFeed’s 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗔𝗴𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘆𝗮’s poem carries a maturity beyond his years: "let me brandish a syllable sharper than carbon.”
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Read 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙧𝙞: https://t.co/7mfogWDBoU
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#ecopoetry #manjusri #EnvironmentalAwareness #TigerMothReview

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Between “A hundred armed embrace” and “her chitin affections”, this poem by 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗮 will bring a smile your face.
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Read 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙙𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨: https://t.co/gJNZaGCCe9
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#thetigermothreview #tmrissue16 #ecojournal #Mothering

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@AvashByanjankar's poem weaves from “little crabs [that]…glisten berry-red” to “The sun [sheltering] gently behind Mt. Tsurumi,/as if afraid the spring will run from its brilliance.”
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Read 𝘽𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜: https://t.co/fQHHtzD3fY
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#ecopoetry #Beppu #Shoningahama

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“The river remembers/Every hand that bent toward it”, yet it continues flowing despite being despoiled.

𝗚𝗼𝗽𝘂 𝗠. 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗹 poem's is a keen observation of the noble persistence of nature.
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Read 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨: https://t.co/uLNOqdGbws

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𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮's ecofiction shows the courage and intuition it takes to understand and preserve one's natural environment for the future.

Read 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣’𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙥: https://t.co/KANWM4hgt6 ​

#tmrissue16 #ecojournal #ecofiction #Cyclone

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“Hidden in plain sight,/we hang our flags from schools...[The land] asks why are you so greedy, nʋ hollo?"
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𝗪𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 questions if declarations are enough to restore environmental justice.

Read 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 #1: https://t.co/ahnktUxQlI

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𝗟𝗲𝗲 𝗭𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗴’s photos of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙎𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙧 is the culmination of deep kin-making, showcasing a deep sensitivity and respect for his subjects.
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See all of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙎𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙧 here: https://t.co/KWmU1licwf
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#SambarDeer

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𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲’s prose poem has imagery as abundant as the kokanee salmon of Flathead Lake were, whose “shimmering scales…held their own luminosity.”
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Can anything truly disappear when it lives in us?
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Read 𝙎𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙧: https://t.co/waGc38stZB

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𝗔𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘃 describes his poem as “a meditation on ecological grief without surrender...a transformation from architecture to geology”

Read 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙩: https://t.co/NqnHEyQlJc
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#tmrissue16 #ecojournal #ecopoetry #Memory

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𝗟𝘂𝗲𝗶 𝗘𝗻 𝗟𝗲 acknowledges that while “all things yield to time”, the mogotes carry “a quiet resolve—/[as they] mend [their] fractures and breathes”.
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Read 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩: https://t.co/uoi2bb3bM2
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#LimestoneHills

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“’Let the government kill them all!’, she’d argued/after yet another attack...‘they are just hungry,’ he’d say,/ ‘like me’ she’d think.”
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𝗧𝘂𝗻-𝗠𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗵 spotlights the struggles of human-wildlife conflict.

Read 𝙏𝙤𝙤 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡: https://t.co/8LIDaXgS22

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Scientific necessity, or exploitation? 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗔.𝗞. addresses this specimen in 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙁𝙡𝙮𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙠𝙖 (𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟐): https://t.co/4egacbPrLK asian-brown-flycatcher-shot-in-malakka-1862

#Colonialism #Taxidermy #Ecopoetry

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“faith is knowing/your wings will remember their shape/and your wings remember/to fly” Read 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙄𝙣 𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙨 𝙏𝙤 𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝: https://t.co/VhN1fG1BE3

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“Glass and concrete rise/where roots once negotiated with earth...like it was the only thing/allowed to grow.”

Read 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 by 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗼𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀: https://t.co/4egacbOTWc they-call-it-development

#Deforestation #SaveMaju

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“I go into the woods...where, for one brief instant, my heart can slow its rhythm to align with the earth’s."

When you choose to spend time in nature like @lacouvee, your body and spirit will reward you.

Read 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙞𝙧*: https://t.co/hiraI3MyTR

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What is devotion? From @PriyaChabria's tableau, they are songs for The Preserver, preserved across 400 years and heard in the present.

𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 18.514 𝙉, 73.832 𝙀: https://t.co/EHcRykmZLD

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"Listening is an act of attention and not passive reception.”

𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝘾𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙨, 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙙𝙙𝙠𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙚 by sonic artist Li-Chuan Chong explores kinmaking in an urban environment: https://t.co/rtHjtYPufY

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"My father says we only inherit debt./I say we inherit/the pollen carried by bees...the chorus of cicadas rattling the air/as if grief could be sung into joy."
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Read 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙢: https://t.co/LKT7VhhSZM
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#tmrissue15 #ecojournal #ecopoetry #optimism

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“Does the eagle worry that someday/its nest would be destroyed?/Or does it focus on the salmon’s fin,/oscillating through the stream?”

Read 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 by @JordanProchnow: https://t.co/psH9yCuD7i

#ecopoetry