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Pratap Nambiar
Straight From The Heart
About the Book
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
About the Book
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
About the Book
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
About the Book
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
About the Book
“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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