A visitor’s guide to Leiden
A surreal city poem by Tzy Jiun Tan set in Holland.
On Writing in English
“My relationship with English began with the need to forsake my origin, to renounce my identity” — Dayin Wijaya unspools the tangle between his Indonesian heritage with the prevalence of English language education in his life.
Alien
“I’m caught on the hook like a / Gasping fish and then laid on ice” – Tzy Jiun Tan navigates the city as an outsider, a woman, what makes her “alien.”
On belonging
Dayin Wijaya traces his journey from Holland to Abu Dhabi.