Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

“We teeter between celebration and hubris, between the trump card of capitalism and the burning of the gifts for the dead. We are waiting for Godzilla to arise out of the sea and take back what is hers.”


Towards the end of 2014, the British poet George Szirtes spent a month in Singapore.


Here are his impressions of the city-state and its people, in the form of both journal entries and poetry.


Other titles in the series:


The Cuckoo Conundrum by Grace Chia
Saint by Jean Tay
Belfast by Timothy O’Grady                 
Right of the Soil by Yong Shu Hoong



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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

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Reviews

"Szirtes [...] seems able to find fertile images for making sense of the simultaneously unprecedented and banal phenomenon that is Singapore." —Angus Whitehead, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature


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George Szirtes