Having worked as a construction laborer, insurance surveyor and batik painter, writer-slash-poet Krirksit Palamart, 44, has just been announced as the latest recipient of Thailand’s S.E.A. Write Award for his poetry collection Nakhon Khon Nok (Outsider Town), published under his alias Palang Piangpirun. BK chats to him about his life journey and how sorrow makes for great subject matter.