Doors to the Binary Pavilion tent on the SMU Green had to be left open to accommodate around 300 fans keen to hear Britain’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy over the weekend at the Singapore Writers Festival. This led poet Alvin Pang, 41, to call for a larger venue next year. “Carol Ann Duffy could easily have filled venues twice the size,” he said, adding that it would also be nice to have a small “green room” just for writers to meet and talk in between sessions.