Sorry I’m Booked: Book Swap – Encore Edition (35++)

Fri, 28 Aug 2026
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I’ll be co-hosting a book swop together with Reine Cassandra from Sorry I’m Booked as well as Adeline Foo!

📚 Sorry I’m Booked presents: Book Swap – Encore Edition (35++)

💡 Theme: Second Chances (fiction only)
📅 Date: Saturday, 12 September 2026
🕑 Time: 2pm (arrival); 4pm (end)
📍 Venue: Exact venue will be confirmed upon successful registration
🎟️ Entry: Free!
🍲 Refreshments: Potluck-style – bring a dish or drink to share; we’ll eat as we swop

This edition is for the 35++ crowd – for those who’ve begun to recognise that the best stories, like the best things in life, only reveal their depth with time.

The session is themed around Second Chances. These can be works of fiction about second chances, second comings, returns, reinventions or characters and authors getting another shot at something. Bring a book that fits these ideas or even a text which you’re giving a second chance.

What to bring:

  1. A food or beverage item in one of these categories:
    • Appetizers/salads/sides
    • Savoury
    • Sweet/desserts
    • Alcoholic drinks
    • Non-alcoholic drinks
  2. One wrapped fiction book (poetry, prose or plays) for the main swop which fits the theme of Second Chances. The wrapping doesn’t need to be too fancy – or it can be as fancy as you’d like! Your call.

Optional: Extra books to declutter or casually swop. ​You can also swop books available on the day, subject to availability

​Come for the books and the conversation; I personally guarantee you’ll leave with something new to put on your bookshelf as well as something to talk about.

​Please RSVP here only if you’re sure you can make it. Numbers are capped to fit the space, so every no-show means another genuine reader misses out.

Nevertheless, we understand completely if plans change. If that’s the case, please let us know ASAP so we can free up your ticket for the next person on the waitlist.

See you there!

General Lee x Laremy Lee: Long Time Coming / Say It Like It Is

Mon, 24 Mar 2025
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Described as a meeting of the minds between North Mississippi hill country blues and Singapore poetry, Long Time Coming x Say It Is Like It Is is one of the earliest collaborations between General Lee and me.

The song by the Singapore-based rock ‘n’ roll band is an observation of the roots of modern poverty and systemic inequality in historical injustice, while my poem responds to these themes through a scathing satire of privilege, addressing anxieties about poverty on different points of the ideological spectrum at the same time.

I will be reprising this work together with DeltaV at our upcoming performance, Singaporeana Blues, this Friday, 28 March 2025 from 7-9.30pm at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre.

See you then!

DeltaV x Laremy Lee: Singaporeana Blues

Thu, 20 Mar 2025
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I’ll be performing together with Victor, my good friend and long-time collaborator in the arts, next week at the Esplanade!

Date: Friday, 28 March 2025
Time: 7pm to 9.30pm
Venue: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre

Titled Singaporeana Blues, the performance combines music and stagecraft with the literary arts, exploring the universality of the human experience across time and space through themes that include love, longing and loss.

This performance will feature blues classics curated by Victor to a selection of published and unpublished works written over the course of my career. I’ll also debut a new poem written in 2025, entitled “Obituary”.

Victor will be performing as part of DeltaV, the platform through which he presents the blues and its sub-genres in exploratory instrumental line-ups.

This time, his fellow scholar of the blues, Brian Lim, will be playing the harmonica to channel the classic blues duo sound originating from the Mississippi Delta.

Some of the blues musicians DeltaV will cover include Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Please join us if you can! More details on the Esplanade website here.