World Cup season is over, and we don't just mean the football tournament, of which Germany came out tops.
The Poetry World Cup organised by literary magazine The Missing Slate, has also chosen its champion: Singapore.
Poet and artist Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde went through several competitive rounds of voting with his submission gan qing yong shi :: impulsive and impetuous before meeting Pakistan's Mehvash Amin in the final.
His deep-thinking, free-flowing poem — "All the urban chic, all the material wealth, the sheer waste. The blitzkrieg of the senses, that's what our legacy will be understood as."— eventually garnered a close 25 votes more than Amin's grim tercet on July 14.
Amid the celebrations, Kon told Mayo Martin of TODAY newspaper,"This win is for Singapore. It couldn't have happened without everyone. I've been text-hugging everybody."
Martin also reports that Kon's Poetry World Cup success has earned him some commissioned work for a commercial gallery.
Read the poems here.
Photo: Desmond Kon Facebook
World Cup season is over, and we don't just mean the football tournament, of which Germany came out tops.
The Poetry World Cup organised by literary magazine The Missing Slate, has also chosen its champion: Singapore.
Poet and artist Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde went through several competitive rounds of voting with his submission gan qing yong shi :: impulsive and impetuous before meeting Pakistan's Mehvash Amin in the final.
His deep-thinking, free-flowing poem — "All the urban chic, all the material wealth, the sheer waste. The blitzkrieg of the senses, that's what our legacy will be understood as."— eventually garnered a close 25 votes more than Amin's grim tercet on July 14.
Amid the celebrations, Kon told Mayo Martin of TODAY newspaper,"This win is for Singapore. It couldn't have happened without everyone. I've been text-hugging everybody."
Martin also reports that Kon's Poetry World Cup success has earned him some commissioned work for a commercial gallery.
Read the poems here.
Photo: Desmond Kon Facebook