BOOK LAUNCH 1: PLEASE STOP SCREAMING, IT'S FINE

Come celebrate the launch of Stephanie Dogfoot's explosive 2nd poetry collection PLEASE STOP SCREAMING, IT'S FINE, published by Game Over Books. Tickets are free. RSVP here.

Hosted by the luminous ArunDitha, with guest performances by poets Shivram Gopinath, Pamela Seong Koon and Will Beale.

THE BOOK

This is a collection of poems that explores desire, disobedience, death and horsegirlhood. It is about a poet grappling with the loss of a sister to ALS/Motor Neurone Disease. It is a middle finger to the boundaries between fantasy, memory and reality. It has ponies in it. It is a celebration of defiance. It is a dance through the debris of an indifferent world to celebrate connections between siblings, friends, classmates, comrades, elders, lovers-– people we are lucky enough to experience life with, even if just for a moment.

“Stephanie Chan turns school halls, street directories, potatoes, bad parties, queer desire, family mythology and an improbable number of horses into poems that ask how we remember the people and places that make us. Even as grief gathers at its edges, this collection refuses solemnity. Chan writes with mischief, startling intimacy and enormous heart.” – Pooja Nansi, author of we make spaces divine

THE POET

Stephanie Chan, also known as Stephanie Dogfoot, is a poet and performer from Singapore. They are the 2010 Singapore Poetry Slam Champion and the 2012 UK Poetry Slam Champion. They are the author of the poetry collection Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press, 2019) and a co-editor of EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices (Math Paper Press, 2021). They have performed their work in 14 countries, including tours of Germany, Australia and North America. Passionate about building spoken word communities, they have been hosting and running poetry nights in London and Singapore since 2012. Stephanie is the founder of Spoke and Bird, a monthly poetry night which features local and international artists and which is currently Singapore’s longest-running poetry open mic. They are inspired by joy, resistance, mud and large mammals.

THE HOST

ArunDitha is a poet, musician and performance-maker from Singapore. Her work has been published and performed widely – from Penguin Random House (India) to Guernica Mag (US) to the Barcelona International Poetry Festival. She was a 2025–2026 artist-in-residence at the National Gallery Singapore, and is currently working on performances with Cake Theatre and her band Mantravine.