Spoke & Bird ft. Kyatos, Natalie Wang & Alison Clara Tan

singapore's longest-running poetry night Come join us for the last Spoke & Bird of the year on FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2026 with an open mic and THREE incredible headline acts, KYATOS, NATALIE WANG & ALISON CLARA TAN at an exciting brand new venue, MAD ROASTERS SLOW BAR! Email us at [email protected] for a slot. 9 open mic spots up for grabs! Every open micer gets 5 minutes. OPEN MIC-ERS DO NOT NEED TO BUY TICKETS TO JOIN THE SHOW! kyatos is a spiritual impulse in motion. She writes poetry and speculative fiction; makes performance sigils and spells; and directs performances which stretch what we understand as theatre. Her publications include slow dream machine (2020), a self-published poetry collection; u/i (2025), a poetry-art chapbook published by Dakota Books; and Annexe (2026; forthcoming), a pamphlet of speculative flash fiction published by Paper Jam. She was a resident artist for the 2025 AiR Programme at The Godown Arts Centre, Kuala Lumpur and the 2024 Residency at the Intercultural Theatre Institute; a participating artist for Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022; and a resident writer for Centre 42’s New Scripts Residency 2021. Natalie Wang writes about cats, ghosts, and womanhood, and maintains that they are all the same thing. Her short stories and poems have been published in Cartridge Lit, Cordite Poetry Review, Corvid Queen, Fairy Tale Review, Trampoline Journal, The Kindling, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Neuro Logical, OF ZOOS, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Strange Horizons, amongst others. She co-edited Free To Play: A Video Game Anthology: A Video Games Anthology (Difference Engine). Her debut poetry collection The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Machine is a book on metamorphosis and myth. Her second poetry collection, Possession, is about ghosts, familial trauma, and the Singaporean gothic. You can find her at www.nataliewang.me and @natwangthecat. Alison Clara Tan is a Southeast Asian writer based in London. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review, Gulf Coast Journal, fourteen poems and wildness, among others. She is a finalist for the 2026 Wasafiri New Writing Prize and has placed in the 2026 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. She is a London Library Emerging Writer, a Barbican Young Poet, and a Brooklyn Poets Fellow.