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Edwin Thumboo (Editor) Chia Hwee Pheng, Isa Kamari, K.T.M. Iqbal (Associate Editors)
Fifty on 50 About the Book Fifty on 50 celebrates Singapore’s 50th year of self-government. This poetry volume reflects the rich multi-ethnic hues of our people in words, photographs and illustrations. From personal experiences to broad sweeps of history, these poems by 50 poets, in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil and their translations... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE  |
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Bebe Seet
Peranakan Beadwork: My Heritage About the Book Southeast Asia is known to many as a region teeming with tourist destinations, economic opportunities and ex-colonies, but a lesser-known facet is its colourful and myriad Peranakan culture. In this book, Straits Chinese culture is viewed through the lens of beadwork production... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Mohammad A. Quayum & Wong Phui Nam (eds.) / Edwin Thumboo (general ed.) Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume 2 - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I About the Book Sharing Borders, Volume 2 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account we have to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, surveys and special topics, it provides essential background, traces origins and early development, the way... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Gwee Li Sui (ed.) / Edwin Thumboo (general ed.) Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume 2 - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II About the Book Sharing Borders, Volume 2 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account we have to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, surveys and special topics, it provides essential background, traces origins and early development, the way... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Jonathan J Webster Essays on Edwin Thumboo: J J Webster, T Kandiah, Wong Phui Nam & Lily Tope About the Book There is an element of mystery in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Mystery in the sense of there being, to borrow Einstein’s wording, “something subtle, intangible and inexplicable”, and truly beyond anyone’s ability to fit neatly into some literary or linguistic description... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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R Ramachandran & Phan Ming Yen Edwin Thumboo Bibliography 1952 - 2008 About the Book Professor Edwin Thumboo was appointed Professor of English at the National University of Singapore in January 1979 and is presently Emeritus Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature and Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong. ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Ronald D. Klein INTERLOGUE Studies in Singapore Literature Volume 8: Interviews II About the Book INTERLOGUE is a Series which brings into critical focus the works of Singapore writers in English. The Series aims for stimulating insights presented in a refreshing manner through sustained engagements with a variety of approaches, themes and perspectives.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Adeline Foo Georgette’s Mooncakes About the Book Two little girls found themselves caught up in the middle of an uprising in ancient China, as the Chinese revolted against their Mongol rulers. Against a backdrop of mystical Chinese lanterns and monstrous Japanese kites... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Adeline Foo Guai Wu, The Chinese Elf About the Book Guai Wu looks different from other children. Because of this, they shun him and hurl ugly names and unkind words at him. One day, Guai Wu met a seamstress who took him into her house, and offered him food and shelter... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Felix Cheong Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems About the Book Out of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of language. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisis of faith to divorce, from fatherhood to being, yes, tattooed.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Wena Poon The Proper Care of Foxes About the Book Step into the quirky, tender, luminous world of Wena Poon. In California, a dot com executive falls in love with an Asian barista in a coffee joint. In Malaysia, a Chinese woman boards a plane... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Gilbert Koh Two Baby Hands About the Book Gilbert Koh’s poems explore his own everyday reality, to uncover the many layers that lie hidden below its obvious surface. His poems seek to give a voice to all those essential yet silent... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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David Fedo Carrots and Other Poems About the Book Carrots and Other Poems is one man’s quiet reflections on the places and people in his life – of his native Minnesota in the United States where he grew up, of New England and Massachusetts where he built his career, and of Singapore, where he currently lives and works... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Alvin Pang and Tiziano Fratus (eds) Double Skin About the Book Turin encounters Singapore: the traditional heart of industrial and cultural Europe meets the dynamic passion of modern Asia. Featuring ten amazing new poetic voices from Italy and Singapore... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE |
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Adeline Foo Monsters On The Wall About the Book Kai-Kai is afraid to sleep at night. He sees monsters from shadows dancing across his wall! A giant lizard, a tarantula, a python and a large flying insect! What’s next? Is he going to be eaten?... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |
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Adeline Foo The Thing Under My Bed About the Book Buster loves snacking just before bedtime. Take a peek under his bed and you’d find crumbs, discarded wrappersand half-eaten bits of food. One night, Buster hears strange noises from under his bed!... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |
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Adeline Foo Nu Nu, The Ring-Necked Monster About the Book Nu Nu runs into a tiger in the forest. Afraid that she might be eaten up by the hungry beast, she uses her wits to escape by enlisting the aid of a mighty ring-necked monster. Will she succeed?... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |
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Tan Jing Quee, Teo Soh Lung, Koh Kay Yew (eds) Our Thoughts Are Free: Poems and Prose on Imprisonment and Exile About the Book Nietzsche’s words, now a popular saying, asserts that "that which does not kill us makes us stronger". What is seldom observed, however, is that the real threat often isn’t an external force but an internal one.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |
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Sng-Fun Poh Yoke (ed.) Simply This ~ Simply His, Portraits of Sng Boh Khim About the Book A gentleman fluent with the pen comes through clearly in this collection of Sng Boh Khim's writings. But more than that, in these pages we find portraits of Boh Khim as a son, a brother, a husband, a father and a friend..... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |
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Fong Hoe Fang (ed.) That We May Dream Again About the Book In 1987, twenty-two Singaporeans were arrested under the Internal Security Act of Singapore. The government alleged that the detainees were part of a Marxist conspiracy aimed at subverting the existing social and political system in Singapore..... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS REVIEW |