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  Pratap Nambiar
Straight From The Heart


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Straight From The Heart is a unique collection that not only marries English poems with a Chinese translation, but also includes a set of Chinese paintings and artworks created specially to complement the sentiments and insights of the poet...


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  Shelley Berc
Light and Its Shadow


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Light and Its Shadow is the riveting story of Olive and Spider, two women whose lives bridge the 20th century. Mysteries and intricacies from their personal histories intertwine with the culture at large – from the rise of consumerism, electricity...


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  Isa Kamari
One Earth


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One Earth, originally titled Satu Bumi in Malay, is the first English translation of Isa Kamari’s prolific works. It is a tragic love story of a young Chinese girl adopted by a Malay family....


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  Edwin Thumboo
Writing Asia: the Literatures in Englishes
Volume 1: From the Inside.
Asia-Pacific Literatures in Englishes


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Half a century of English for educational, administrative, creative, and other purposes sees the language secure and thriving in virtually all former colonies of Great Britain....


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  Peter Nazareth
Interlogue. Studies in Singapore Literature. Vol 7: Edwin Thumboo.
Creating A Nation Through Poetry


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An interviewer speaking to Edwin Thumboo once asked: "But what is the reference for this...I
mean where is the authority which I can cite?" and Thumboo's response was: "When it comes
to Singaporean Literature in English I am your footnote."...


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  Masturah Alatas
The girl who made it snow in Singapore


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Ariana, an eight-year-old schoolgirl, discovers one morning that her magical voice has the power to change the weather. She is subsequently forbidden by the authorities from using her supernatural powers to alter the climate...


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  John Kinsella and Alvin Pang
Over There – Poems from Singapore and Australia


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Curated by two of the foremost literary figures of their generation, the ground-breaking Singapore-Australia anthology of poetry brings together for the first time the contemporary work...


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  Khoo Lilin
The Story of Ms. Poet


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Do childhood dreams come true? This is the question asked by the author in The Story of Ms. Poet. It is a story about a girl who wants most of all to write poetry in Singapore...


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  Amy J. Cheng
Silly Snigger Stripe Riper


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How did a tiger get his name – Silly Snigger Stripe Riper? His adventures in a jungle, deep, deep in Asia, are inter-woven with those of two hunters. One can take this as a warm tale of family, friendship and community ties, to be read with child-like delight...


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  David Birch
Interlogue. Studies in Singapore Literature.
Vol. 6: Haresh Sharma. The Cultural Politics of Playwriting in Contemporary Singapore


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This volume in the Interlogue Series examines in detail Haresh Sharma’s very extensive
body of work, beginning with his very early writing and ending with his 2006 work...


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  Aaron Lee
Five Right Angles


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There exists no geometric form with five right angles. This collection of poems speaks with both
guarded tenderness and an array of simple humane demands amidst everyday...


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  Mei Ching Tan
Towards the Blue: Adventures of a City Wimp


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“When Mei Ching Tan landed a grant of ten grand, she knew immediately that she could not buy a chocolate factory, so she did what she always dreamt of doing: have the wilderness experience of her life. Plunging headlong into the Canadian wilderness ...


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  Jasmine Seah & Jennifer Koh
Light is Like Water


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“Inspired by Jennifer Koh’s photographs —inscribed with a vigorous love for the mundane and the momentary— Jasmine Seah writes her poems, not exactly describing the pictures, yet making a connection to them...


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  Colin Tan
The Evidence of The Senses


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“Remembrance and desire, regret and anticipation, death and redemption. Tan’s epiphanic style gives access to the interpenetrating tensions of the human condition...


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  Dana Lam
Days of Being Wild: GE2006 Walking the Line with the Opposition (2006)


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“Days of Being Wild records with words and images, the heady days of GE2006. It reflects the nine days when Singaporeans throw off the visage of their normally reticent selves. They clamber over ditches and ...


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