Poetry
Ethos Books publishes an assortment of works by contemporary Singaporean poets. One finds and loses oneself in the lights of the concrete jungle, in the transience of memories, in the confusion of history, in sickness, in love, in the deceptively stark bareness of the written word. >> VIEW TITLES

Prose
Singapore: oriental…exotic…quaint…guess again. In the prose fiction of current regional writers, the island is no longer simply some tropical paradise or an idyllic cosmopolitan blend of East and West. Life’s complexity exists in the seemingly mundane—the schools and the HDB flats, the taxi-drivers and hawkers, and even the plain facts-only television news at nine. >> VIEW TITLES

Others
Who says the arts is “just fluff?” In these works, critics, novelists, poets, and academics explore local literature as an expression of present-day political and social sensibilities and discuss its potential to influence the society of tomorrow. >> VIEW TITLES