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Jack Malik

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Jack Malik

Jack Malik is a poet from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Jack has been a part of an artist collective, Projek Rabak, since 2015. Since then, he has been actively writing, performing, and translating poetry. His works have been published internationally in Mekong Review and locally in Dewan Sastera, Selangorkini, Tukang Puisi, Tunas Cipta and more....

Jack mainly writes in Malay and has two poetry collections published locally entitled Wannabe Sasau and Sajakjakja(c)k. Jack is also one of the recipients of the Selangor State Literary Prize 2020 (known as Hadiah Sastera Selangor 2020) for poetry.

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Articles by Jack Malik

Monsoon Fable
By Jack Malik
frog cries saturate. life inundates. crane stares blacken. death curdles. ancestral winds whirl.
Translated from Malay by Thira Mohamad
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