Labouring for Sustainable Space in Literary Creativity

By Swit Marie, William Tham

May 2021 FEATURE
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Dato' A. Samad Said celebrating If Walls Could Talk’s first anniversary.
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“SUSTAINABILITY”, “SOLIDARITY”, “MEANINGFULNESS”. These terms are especially pertinent when it comes to discussing the creative economy. But what does such an economy look like when we try to map the most nebulous of the creative arts?At its heart, poetry is abstract, involving the manipulation of and experimentation with text. It does not lend itself to a solid idea of commodities, markets and producers the same way a feature film or an album does. Worse, the old question of art versus...

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Swit Marie

is a Jacqueline of all trades who works with the Abstract Nature events company and indie record label. Four years ago, she started volunteering with If Walls Could Talk and was the festival assistant for Swadaya x George Town Literary Festival 2020.

William Tham

His novel, The Last Days, is set in 1981 and covers the continuing legacy of the Malayan Emergency. He is currently an editor-at-large with Wasifiri and also an MA candidate at Universiti Malaya.

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