Press & Rights
For publishers,
editors & programmers
Cecilia Tan writes poetry and verse drama in the tradition of Shakespeare. Rights are unagented and available worldwide. Everything below may be quoted freely; the press kit contains the same material in one file.
Biography
Manuscripts available
Love’s Reckoning
Poetry collection
Four movements — In Bloom, The Kingdom, The Light Changes, After — plus a sequence of soliloquies. Approx. 70 poems.
Complete manuscript — seeking publisher
The Demolition of Love
Verse play, five acts
A five-act tragedy in verse with full dramatis personae. Written for the stage, readable as a single long poem.
Complete — available for staging and print
Hamlet Reimagined
Soliloquy sequence
Five soliloquies of Gijsbert, Prince of Almere. A contemporary answer to Shakespeare in the voice of a modern man undone.
Complete — available for performance
Performance history
2026
The Demolition of Love
Staged reading — full five-act cycle
Ticketed performance, tickets available through this site.
2026
Hamlet Reimagined
Poetry reading — the five soliloquies
Ticketed reading, tickets available through this site.
Ongoing
Love’s Reckoning — community readings
Open submissions gallery and guest readers
A rotating platform for women writing poems, plays, and screenplays.
Rights & contact
Available
World English, translation, audio, and performance rights.
Representation
Unagented. Enquiries handled directly by the author.
Samples
Full manuscripts sent on request; selected poems are readable here.