Eric Tinsay Valles

Eric Tinsay Valles has published two poetry collections, A World in Transit and After the Fall: dirges among ruins (shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize), and co-edited the 2015 Singapore Writers Festival bestseller Get Lucky anthology of Singapore-Philippine writings . His poems have appeared in Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, the Hispanic Culture Review, Jet Fuel Review, Reflecting on the Merlion, & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond, Under the Storm Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry and the Southeast Asian Review of English. He has won prizes in the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition (2013) and the British Council’s Writing the City competitions (2011).
Career
His critical work is featured in The Creativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century, Writing Diaspora and The Asiatic. He has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne University and Oxford University. He has taken up writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Centrum in Washington state, and Wellspring House (Massachusetts). He writes about the migrant experience and personal trauma with humour and empathy.
Awards and recognition
His Singapore Literature Prize-shortlisted After the Fall (dirges among ruins) <ref name="Tan 2015"/><ref name="Valles 2014"/> is a poetry collection that takes stock of motivations for violence as well as of the means by which victims can pick up the pieces from the resulting brutality and loss. Envisioned as a dialogue with the thinkers St. Augustine and Walter Benjamin, the book gives witness to hurt or pain through the perception of everyday objects and nature scenes. Sections of the book are a meditation on life in a frenetic, modern metropolis that harks back to a rosy, lost time when personal bonds were strong and the individual was cheery about the future. Survivors in such a cityscape resort to cultural improvisation in the face of the consciousness of rootlessness.

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