I Want You When You Say No

The Substation Love Letters
I Want You When You Say No
12 writers | 12 poems | 12 postcards | 12 months

Singaporean-based writers of different races, cultural backgrounds and sexualities, have been invited to explore the erotics of “un-belonging”. A sense of belonging, dislocation, or ambivalence forms the focus. In any relationship, does one escape into an eroticised state of Otherness and difference, or does love only serve to reaffirm one’s own identity? While writers are encouraged to interpret the theme freely, they are encouraged to question the assumptions behind any relationship to a person and place – and preferably with a social or political consciousness.

The works of these writers are presented as love letters, from The Substation to members of the public, and are published as limited-edition postcards, each released on a monthly basis at The Substation only, where the public can pick them up for free. Discover this month’s poem by hurrying down to The Substation to collect your postcard, or read it online at www.substation.org/loveletters