Portside Review

Emerging from the foam of the Indian Ocean, Portside Review is a journal written for and from these coastal homes.

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INTRODUCTION TO ‘FAMILY (1996)’ BY LEOW PUAY TIN 📚
I was curious whether I could now write about a whole clan of women.
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KALAU DAH JODOH BY NURUL HUDA MOHD RAZIF 💌
Jodoh, I now understand, encompasses so much more than simply the pleasure of meeting another soul.
🖼️Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif
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LEAVINGS BY MOHAN AMBIKAIPAKER 🛣️
What if tomorrow I would need to flee
the last five-foot way, the last corner
kopi tiam & last roadside shrine?
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COCONUT CANDY BY ADIB FAIZ 🥥
Who knew candy could be an extended metaphor for amalgamation?
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WONG PHUI NAM ON SALLEH BEN JONED BY ANNA SALLEH 🗣️
“He spoke the truth… He called a spade a spade and people didn’t like it.”
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ADAM’S DREAM IN HIS BY SALLEH BEN JONED 🌬️
Those profane, blasphemous drunks
and true poets knew it:
they too dreamt Adam's dream.
🖼️“Cintamani” by Anoora
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ORCHARD MEMORIES BY DAVID TNEH 🎑
Nonchalantly,
you walked with a watering hose
to shower the lime trees of your
precious toil.
🖼️"Ikan Kelah" by Anoora
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KAMI YANG KEKAL BY SOOK JIN ONG 📣
the haze shrouding buyers in palaces, sellers parading promises - we witness you trade our lives.
🖊️@sookjinong
🖼️"Merdeka" by Anoora
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JUST A GIRL BY LEE KOK LIANG 🌑
Everyone said the moon was lovely. The moon was kind.
🖼️"Anak Dan Ibu" by Anoora
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THE WORLD IS NOT MASCULINE BY DANO CHOW 🗺️
hitherto modern man has only reiterated
masculinity, sowing enlightenment
upon man who do not ask for it
✏️@danochow
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“SIAPA PICASSO” FROM SAVAGE PUNK ABSTRACTIONISM BY ANOORA CHAPEK, 2022
Malaysian artist Anoora's painting “Siapa Picasso” uses colourful paint strokes to evoke Picasso’s art style.
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‘ODE TO SALLEH JONED’ BY LATIF KAMALUDDIN 🎺
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MY MESSAGE BY CECIL RAJENDRA 🌾
i want every punctuation ---
full-stop, comma and semi-colon
to turn into a grain of barley
millet, maize, wheat or rice
in the mouths of our hungry.
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‘ABOMIDABLE POETRY’ BY LATIF KAMALUDDIN🌨️
the native poet is the poet of the native
native poetry is the poetry of the native
the abominable law is the law of the snowman
the abominable snowman is the law
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HEALING POWER BY MALACHI EDWIN VETHAMAN🌿
He was captivated about learning from nature and its healing powers.
✏️@malachiedwin
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BOOK DATE AT A CAFÉ IN MUAR BY JACK MALIK ☕
—we gorge all of the yellow warm lights
& the cool estuary’s breeze the night
offered, feeding our love.
✏️@jackmalik_pr
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AGAINST THE WILDNERNESS BY WONG PHUI NAM🌊
When the valley dawned about us, we sensed
that we had come, each to our particular end.
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MALAYSIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH: INFLUENCE AND INDEPENDENCE BY EE TIANG HONG📚
For what does it profit a poet if he gains national honour and loses self-respect?
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THE STADIUM BY WAN PHING LIM ⛐
The more you avoided a thing, the more power it had over you. Wasn’t that what the minister had preached on Sunday?
✏️@wanphing
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SAMA-SAMA (FROM ‘THOUGHTS ON OUR TONGUES’) BY YEE HENG YEH 🫂
When you say “sama-sama”, do you mean it? Do you mean
- that you see yourself in me?
✏️@HengYeh42
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