Chasing literary ghosts: Malaysian poetry archival project lands in Penang

A visitor listening to a recording at the inaugural A Wasteland Of Malaysian Poetry In English exhibition in Kuala Lumpur last year. This week, its third edition is showing in George Town, Penang. Photo: Imran Sulaiman

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” is one of the more recognised lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.

The line talks about collecting fragments in order to preserve them against the decay of time – which is exactly what audio exhibition A Wasteland Of Malaysian Poetry In English aims to do.