Poems of Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor

shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Award for 2018

cross-cultural conversations

She has been longlisted for the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition (2021)

the earthy

Poems of Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma shortlisted for the Kenneth SlessorThis second volume in Vagabonds Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry by three major Filipino poets writing in Tagalog: Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma, translated from Tagalog and introduced by Robert Nery, with cover art by Lyra Garcellano. Rolando S. Tinio was born in the packed district of Tondo, Manila in 1937, and began writing poetry in English. He switched to Tagalog, his mother tongue, (the national