ABOUT THE BOOK/ BLURB

Genre: Poetry | (Chinese poems with English Transcreations)

Published by: The Literary Centre | Distributed by: Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd

Poems 1 [Rebellion] is a selection of Yeng Pway Ngon’s works published between 1967 and 1970, a period in which his poetry openly confronts issues of urban modernity, consumerism and apathy, social decadence and cultural decay, moral hypocrisy, and the corruption of power. This is the first of a series of chapbooks in translation which will explore the range of Yeng’s poetry from the 1960s to the present.

This books features poems in Mandarin with English translations. Transcreations by Alvin Pang and Goh Beng Choo.

The titles in this series include:

Poems 1 [Rebellion]; Poems 2 [Personal Notes]; Poems 3 [Self-exile]; Poems 4 [Resurgence]; Poems 5 [Other Thoughts]

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CONTENTS

1) Aria 咏叹调

2) Café 咖啡座

3) On the Operating Table 手术台上

4) Edifice 建筑物

5) Telephone Booth 电话亭

6) Inside the Tomb 墓穴内

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in 1947, Yeng Pway Ngon is a poet, novelist, playwright and critic who has published 24 volumes of poetry, essays, fiction, plays and literary criticism in the Chinese language. He has been translated into English, Malay and Dutch.

A recipient of Singapore’s 2003 Cultural Medallion for Literature, Yeng was one of the signature modern poets of Malaya in the 1960s, and was editor and publisher of two literary magazines, Teahouse in the 1980s and Encounter in the 1990s. In 2000 he was a Fellow of the Taipei International Writers-in-Residence program organised by the Cultural Bureau of Taipei. His novel A Man Like Me won a National Book Development's Book Award in 1988. He continued to work quietly away from the spotlight for more than a decade but emerged again with a novel Tumult which won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2004. His latest novel Trivialities About Me and Myself was named by Yazhou Zhoukan [Asiaweek magazine] as one of the Ten Best Chinese Novels in the World for 2006; it also received the Singapore Literature Prize in 2008.