Licensed Poetics

By: B Fung-Ling 毕方翎
  • Summary

  • Licensed Poetics is a podcast about books and art. Every fortnight, writer B. Fung-Ling chats with guests about literature, film, TV, or any other form of creative storytelling. Book reviews, film critique, TV rants, book club fights, you'll hear them all here. LP’s guests are talented writers, critics, visual artists, and musicians, and they offer insight into the creative process. Support LP on Buy Me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/licensedpoetics Host: BFL Founders: BFL and Joachim Li
    B Fung-Ling 毕方翎
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Episodes
  • Our Problematic Fave Books and Flat is Wack ft. Eric Jiang
    Oct 27 2024

    BFL read his poem during lockdown and has wanted to meet him ever since - it’s the incredible Chinese Australian poet Eric Jiang! In this very spicy episode, Derek talks about ‘tickling the yellow’ and his 4am emergency book buying advice; BFL categorises some of her favourites books into Incest, Racism, and Misogyny; and Eric shares his very hot take on poetry readings. Stick around for the blooper at the end!

    Find Eric @squeric_ and https://ercjng.tumblr.com/

    Support Licensed Poetics on Buy Me a Coffee!

    Chapters

    00:00 Music

    01:08 Eric bio

    02:53 4am book advice

    10:21 BFL story time

    15:37 Eileen Myers

    23:05 Problematic faves

    47:47 six inches (sorry)

    55:49 Murakami

    59:18 Blooper

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    1 hr
  • 22. Terrible British Accent Ruined This Audiobook (Sorry But Do Better Srsly) ft. Angela Wu
    Oct 13 2024

    This week, BFL chats with Angela Wu, a comic artist based in Singapore! We hit you with Hamilton horror stories, opinions on Lord Andy (Andrew Lloyd Webber), Phantom of the Opera, and Ursula K Le Guin! Angela is contesting Derek’s title as LP’s resident TV person with her riveting review of the Australian show Wolf Like Me. BFL announces her latest on-screen crush.

    Find Angela on Instagram @li_vermin_il

    Support Licensed Poetics! Link

    Works mentioned

    Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda

    Hamilton animatics by szin on YouTube

    Phantom of the opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

    The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

    Beef starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun

    Wolf Like Me starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs


    Chapters

    00:00 Music

    00:52 Angela bio

    02:02 Hamilton Storytime

    13:08 Phantom of the opera

    18:16 Ursula K Le Guin

    23:50 Beef

    31:03 Miss Peregrine’s Home

    36:46 Wolf Like Me

    40:57 The Great Reclamation

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    46 mins
  • 21. A Five Star Read! Bookclub on Convenience Store Woman ft. Marlene Baquiran
    Sep 29 2024

    In this Singapore edition of Licensed Poetics book club, BFL and Marlene discuss Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, the perfect book for misfits, newbie readers and experienced readers! In the new section LP story time, BFL shares a bookish wedding she went to! Marlene has found the literary scene in SG already?

    Read Marlene’s Substack: Link

    Support LP on Buy Me a Coffee! Link

    Theophilus Kwek (Singaporean poet)

    Chapters

    00:00 Music

    02:54 Marlene bio

    04:12 BFL story time

    13:18 Marlene story time

    21:29 Convenience Store Woman NO spoiler

    39:12 Spoiler section

    59:59 Outro

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    1 hr and 2 mins

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