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“Now you are gone and for a while my womb lost its voice and forgot how to sing. / What is a song but a daughter’s love transcending time and space? / I am learning to listen.” When her beloved dog...

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Patient History

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Winner of the poetry category, The Writers' Centre Literary Awards 2024, NUS Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each...

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About the Book dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风) is a poetry collection that explores mixed race, bilingualism and the complexities of living in a society still entrapped within the CMIO model of race. In ...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2022)  Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a ...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the o...

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Intruder

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View sample pages. At home with loneliness and passing encounters, can we be familiar with another or even ourselves? Does love outweigh the uncertainty of its memory? In his third and latest coll...

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 Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself. In his third collection, Theophilus Kwek enters and examines the unfamiliar, gi...

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Floating Clouds Beyond The Elastic Limit

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  Insisting on collective and common memories, Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit champions a new national literature grounded in the histories of a restless tribe, we who have found a home a...

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A Flying Crystal

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  A Flying Crystal, Lin Gao’s first poetry book, collects the first blushes of language in its encounters with emotions. Poetic form and emotional resonance come together as a flying crystal that d...

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A Walk With My Pig

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Winner, Best Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2024 - Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gwee Li Sui A Walk with My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s unfinished magnum opus, seen for the first time...

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From the Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2022 Available in paperback and e-book* format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback....

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GAZE BACK

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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020) What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should a ...

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Note: Defects and imperfections differ for each copy. The images shown here are a sample. Possible imperfections include minor stains, yellowed/foxed pages, some folded pages, and bruised spines/co...

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring is a multi-publisher, not-for-profit collaboration that aims to amplify the voices of the Burmese people alongside the ongoing Civil Disobedience Mov...

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Some Say, A Tapir

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Featuring new work from Alfian Sa’at, Christine Chia and Yong Shu Hoong, Some Say, A Tapir recaptures the year 1299 of Singapore’s history. The collection delves into stories—both living and legend...

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Farquhar

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  Singaporeans are familiar with the popular mythos of Sir Stamford Raffles, sole and exclusive founder of modern Singapore, who called a bustling port into being with his mighty hand, where only a...

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Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry

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This anthology collects over 100 poems from Singapore, Asia and around the world, and is aimed at the adolescent reader. It seeks to cultivate a love of poetry and an exploration of real-world issu...

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

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  How do we understand the history and landscape of our country? In this bicentennial year, Contour charts a lyric cartography of Singapore, taking in events from the past seven hundred years while...

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK and Europe

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 Tracking the developments of Asian diaspora poetry in America, Australia, UK and Europe, To Gather Your Leaving is a groundbreaking global anthology that explores new ways of looking at nation, cu...

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A Gathering of Themes

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020This collection contains Prof Thumboo’s latest works. Especially interesting are the poems based on biblical characters, something ver...

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“I stand and face the sea,as the waves come crashing to the shore, the music of the sea is thunderous and loud.Yet I am unafraid, I chase the waves, I run about,excited but calm, I want to explore,...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020 Read 4 poems from Right of the Soil → The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born wit...

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

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“Most things in the world around us have poems hidden in them waiting to be revealed if we have the will to pay attention and see them with the heart.” — Anne Lee Tzu Pheng With crayons and stained...

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UnFree Verse

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Second Edition   Rhyme is Shakespeare. Rhythm is rap. Sing Lit is free verse. If you’ve ever had such thoughts, let this book demolish them. With poems drawn from 80 years of print and online mater...

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

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Sample Pages Four writers. Three travelling in Portugal. One staying behind to care for his ailing mother. One long-distance writing affair. The passing of the mother together with memories of othe...

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This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry & Photography

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This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry & Photography

  The city has never been ours; it is fleeting, a collection of habits and faint peals of laughter from glass towers.  The old rivers are covered up, disinfected, bricked. Still we flood, still we ...

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems is a historically significant collection of poetry by Teo Kah Leng: an educator whose love for art and literature preceded his name. He served as teacher, principal, ...

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View sample pages Me migrantBeyond bordersMislaying smilesDawn to dusk then dawn again Me Migrant features the poems of Md Mukul Hossine – poems originally written in Bengali by Mukul, transcreated...

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Phedra

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Phedra is a poetry collection of re-interpreted mythology – with an emphasis on female identity – which delves into the juxtaposition of idolatry and banality. Read 4 poems → Listen to Euginia read...

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Spomenik

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  Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and places bookmark a glimpse of life across a multitude of cities, crossing terrains of history, w...

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Bitter Punch

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  Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize  Bitter Punch is Loh Guan Liang’s second collection of poetry. With a wry eye for the everyday and its often forgotten characters, Loh explores...

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“We teeter between celebration and hubris, between the trump card of capitalism and the burning of the gifts for the dead. We are waiting for Godzilla to arise out of the sea and take back what is ...

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UNION : 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore

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  UNION traces the intertwining trajectories of two dynamic communities: the cosmopolitan Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore, commemorating 50 years of national independence and writing, to ce...

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Ars Poetica for the Day

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Lim’s poems are penetrating accounts of a life lived as a poet devoted to her art. View sample pages.

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Do You Live In?

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  These poems are related to Lim’s travels, and her having lived in various lands, including USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. View sample pages.

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The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love

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 • The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love was the winner for the 2nd Annual USA Regional Excellence Book Awards, 2016 (Poetry category) for West region If Desmond Kon’s earlier collection The Arbitrary Sign ...

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Babel Via Negativa

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• Babel Via Negativa was the winner for the 2nd Annual USA Regional Excellence Book Awards, 2016 (Spirituality category) for Northeast region • Winner of Benjamin Franklin Book Awards Babel Via Neg...

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Equatorial Sunshine

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Equatorial Sunshine

  What can Singapore's weather offer? More than a monochrome of rain and shine, as these poems show. Travelling the shifting patterns of youthful love and loss, they take us into sun, shade, shower...

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The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui

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 Wong Phui Nam (b.1935, Kuala Lumpur) began to write while he was a student at the University of Malaya in Singapore (now the National University of Singapore). He saw the writing and publishing of...

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Straight from the Heart

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  A collection of over 40 poems first written in English by Pratap Nambiar and then transcreated in Chinese by Dr Ho Chee Lick. The latter, after 10 months of intense interaction with the poet, was...

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& Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond

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  Anthologies are well-established institutions. They are especially useful in promoting interest in poetry. &Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond attempts to do so through a fresh approach. First...

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A History of Amnesia

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Unapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian’s second collection of verse delves in greater depth the concerns in his first volume and moves into reclaiming our collective history and memory. In m...

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A World In Transit

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  The world is on the move. As a result, people everywhere are increasingly caught in hybridity or cultural mixing even as they assert their individuality. Indeed, migrants, the subject of many of ...

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After The Fall: Dirges Among Ruins

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After The Fall: Dirges Among Ruins

  This collection explores the creative space of poetry as a means to unravel feelings evoked by the violence of war or by everyday traumatic events. One may come to terms with uncomfortable, inclu...

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City Of Rain

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  “One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, and capable of carrying diverse humors, and read a rhetoric shaded to ironies...

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Coastlands

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 Tell me again where home is, where inhabit all the holy hours, where someday you will find me. - from "Time Lapse" Coastlands is Aaron Lee's third collection of poetry. Whether in a small town or ...

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Cordelia

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  • Cordelia was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2014 (English Poetry Category). Cordelia, Grace Chia’s second poetry collection, excavates from the imagery of life, art and modernit...

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Fear No Poetry

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  Afraid of poetry? Unable to make sense of a poem, let alone enjoy it? Having trouble discussing the web of meanings within a poem or, worse, writing about it? Confused by the kooky critical terms...

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I Watch The Stars Go Out

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  Felix Cheong’s second collection of poetry extends the themes and concerns of his first book, Temptation and Other Poems. At its heart is the image of a collapsing star that explodes in a fury of...

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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry

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Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, observing one’s grandfather cut his nails, watching the rain and the world go by – these ...

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My Burning Hill

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View sample pages. My Burning Hill is a long poem in fifty-six sections. Dr Rosaly Puthucheary wrote this long poem while taking on the perspective of her late brother, Dr James Puthucheary who pla...

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No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry

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No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry

There is no other city quite like Singapore, and yet, no other city which these voices might call their own. No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry brings together a rich spectrum of po...

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one point six one eight

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View sample pages. one point six one eight is a long poem in two parts: ‘migration’, with 13 smaller poems, and ‘home’, with 8. The book title reflects the ratio of 13/8, or the golden ratio of 1.6...

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Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands

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Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands

Peninsular, Daren Shiau's second book, is built around the inescapable motif of islands and archipelagos. The collection redeems as it explores identity and existence through notions of fragments, ...

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Saga Seeds

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View sample pages. Saga Seeds is Patricia Maria Tan's latest poetry collection. The title of her book refers most aptly to her poems, taut red beads of memory and observation. Nostalgic references ...

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Separation: A History

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View sample pages. The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and intensity", as Cyril Wong observes,...

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The Dictator's Eyebrow

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The Dictator's Eyebrow

Finalist for the Singapore Book Publishers Association Awards 2016.   This is a disturbing, poetic account of an unnamed dictator’s eyebrow whose longings, delusions of grandeur, and curious influe...

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The Viewing Party

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Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry   Singapore Literature Prize winner Yong Shu Hoong’s latest book features more than just poetry. There is also a ghostly tale at its...

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This Mortal World

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This Mortal World

  • This Mortal World was shortlisted for the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize. Gods, animals, and men walk together in the landscape of these poems, sometimes aware of each other, sometimes not. A ...

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Traveler's Tale and Other Poems

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  Spanning time, geography and metaphysics, Traveler’s Tale and Other Poems is a personal journey that is at once unique and universal. From a Singaporean childhood, through military service, to a ...

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Teaching Poetry To Adolescents: A Teacher's Guide to Little Things

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 In this Teachers’ Guide, Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent introduce effective and inspirational ideas and strategies for teaching poetry in the secondary Literature classroom that both...

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Never Before—50 Essential Poems / 不可预期—诗精50首

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  不可预期，是对于过往的敬意，现在的奋斗，以及未来的期待。半个世纪，五十首精选，时长两年的整理、梳理，解构又重新建构下，清晰谱出现代诗歌的本土传统与承继。欲兴文学，诗必先锋，诗人敏锐的洞悉与感知能力，往往为生活环境印刻下“当下”的见证，不仅让后者有迹可寻，亦让不同的“当下”在轮回中找到知音。五十首充满前瞻性、趣味性的作品，有意开辟读者对于新华诗作的新想象，并将阅读的心带回到最初的悸动与感动...

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SG Poems 2017-2018

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SG Poems 2017-2018 brings together established and emerging poets from the island's various linguistic traditions in a space where everyone can demand respect. This volume allows them also to give ...

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Love at the Gallery

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Love at the Gallery

View sample pages Writing about love is a challenge. How does one verbalise an intimate and inexpressible feeling? How does one top the Bard and a steady flood of poets and songwriters? But still w...

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SG Poems 2015-2016

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SG Poems 2015-2016

This anthology showcases a representative sample of Singapore poetry written in or translated into English, our common language, in 2015 and 2016. Several poets who published collections during tha...

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Pilgrimage

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Pilgrimage

In 2001, the prolific Singapore author Isa Kamari undertook the pilgrimage to Mecca. Two years later, he wrote a series of 100 poems based on this experience which was published in Malay as Munajat...

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Unhomed

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Unhomed

  In the works of the young Singaporean writers in this anthology, the young writers expressed the anxieties of being unhomed on different levels—personal, domestic, societal—and through varying mo...

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Crossing Universes

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Crossing Universes

  A companion to Unhomed, the other chapbook in the LIVEpress series, Crossing Universes begins with Theophilus Kwek’s “On Roads and Rituals”, a reflection on why we travel and what it means to be ...

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一首诗的时间 2015

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一首诗的时间 2015

  2015年6月份，新文潮文学社在脸书上举办了“一首诗的时间”网络写诗活动。 “一首诗2015”的编委连续30天，每天准时于凌晨贴上一个主题（与加分题），让诗人按照主题创作一首诗。这本诗集结集收录了诗人对主题的回应，显示了新加坡新一代以华文创作的诗人的作品，其不仅自由而恣意，也展现出众声喧哗的特色。 Co-published by TrendLit and Ethos Books, In ...

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Right of the Soil (Chapbook)

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Right of the Soil (Chapbook)

“What haunts me is not the ghosts that reputedly roam the second floor of the E&O Hotel, but the 44-year-old hawker who got buried under the road that we’re speeding across...” The phrase “righ...

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

 Who is Francis P. Ng? This question consumed the mind of Japanese scholar Eriko Ogihara-Schuck as she read F.M.S.R. A Poem by Francis P. Ng in her study of how the poet T. S. Eliot had influenced ...

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Footfalls in the Rain

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Footfalls in the Rain

  Footfalls in the Rain, in 4 Cantos, is a long poem about the journey from youth to age. Each canto deals with one aspect of the psychological journey. However, many of the individual poems are re...

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Light is like water

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Light is like water

Please note that this product is not in mint condition; pages may be yellowed/foxed.   Inspired by Jen's photographs—inscribed with a vigorous love for the mundane and the momentary—Jasmine writes ...

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A Lover's Soliloquy

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A Lover's Soliloquy

  A Lover's Soliloquy is Eddie Tay's second volume of poetry. His debut collection, Remnants, featured acclaimned adaptations of three Classical Chinese Poets, and renditions of mythic and colonial...

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The Evidence of the Senses

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The Evidence of the Senses

  Remembrance and desire, regret and anticipation, death and redemption. Tan’s epiphanic style gives access to the interpenetrating tensions of the human condition.In I Chose to Climb, a mother rea...

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Sleeping Wind

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Sleeping Wind

  Reshma Aquil’s gift as a poet is one of evocation—a scent of something remembered, a landscape rendered, an innocence redeemed.Lyrical and instinctive, she uses words like brushstrokes that recal...

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Simply This ~ Simply His: Portraits of Sng Boh Khim

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Simply This ~ Simply His: Portraits of Sng Boh Khim

 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...

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Remnants

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Remnants

  The great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that every writer creates his/her own precursors. Similarly, every writer creates his/her own pretexts. It is by creating our own pretext...

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Our Thoughts Are Free: Poems and Prose On Imprisonment and Exile

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Our Thoughts Are Free: Poems and Prose On Imprisonment and Exile

Synopsis 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 for...

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Other Things & Other Poems

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Other Things & Other Poems

Other Things & Other Poems is published by Brutal - Association for the promotion of culture and arts. About the Author Alvin Pang (1972) was named 2005 Young Artist of the Year (Literature) by...

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Last Three Women

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Last Three Women

  A zany mix of Beat, Pop and MTV, Koh’s poems side-step the ready path of lyrical sentimentality. His sharp, often barbed and witty observations about people we know from mass media, modern metrop...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 2: Poetry

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 2: Poetry

  Following the success of the first volume on Singapore Fiction, the second volume of Interlogue will focus on Poetry in Singapore. Besides well-known poets such as Edwin Thumboo and Lee Tzu Pheng...

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i write a page

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i write a page

 i write a page is a close encounter with homegrown singer Kit Chan, without make-up and glitter. Written between 1990-1995, during which the singer recorded three albums in Mandarin and moved to T...

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Five Right Angles

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Five Right Angles

  • Five Right Angles was a finalist in the 2008 Singapore Literature Prize awardsThere exists no geometric form with five right angles. This collection of poems speaks with both guarded tenderness...

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Face to Faith

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Face to Faith

  This collection of poems was written during a two-year courageous battle against cancer. Aileen wrote her first poem “My Jaw Muscle and I” shortly after a major operation which replaced her disea...

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35 for Gothenburg

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35 for Gothenburg

  35 for Gothenburg is a collection of the most notable and new poetry by Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, translated into Swedish to introduce Singapore to a wide Swedish audience. For Swedes, Pr...

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A Visitation of Sunlight

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A Visitation of Sunlight

  • Voted one of the year's best books by The Straits Times (1997).A rousing first poetry collection from Aaron Lee. A Visitation of Sunlight is divided into two sections: ‘Night’s Long Road’ and ‘...

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Bring The Sun

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Bring The Sun

 This is a collection of 50 poems from the doyen of Singapore poetry, culled from three of his earlier works which are now out of print. Says Jonathan Webster of the City University of Hong Kong, "...

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Double Skin: New Poetic Voices From Italy and Singapore

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Double Skin: New Poetic Voices From Italy and Singapore

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 in bot...

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Flow Across Our Ocean: Singapore & South Africa

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Flow Across Our Ocean: Singapore & South Africa

This booklet commemorates the Opening Ceremony of Spotlight Singapore in Cape Town (16–19 March 2011), an international exchange programme co-organised by Asian Culture Enterprise Singapore (ACES) ...

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iDENTiTY

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iDENTiTY

iDENTiTY is David Leo's third collection of poems after Somewhere a Tiny Voice (1993) and One Journey, Many Rivers (1997). Louis James, a professor at the University of Kent, UK, finds the poems "i...

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Kepulauan: A Collection of Poems

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Kepulauan: A Collection of Poems

  Kepulauan: A Collection of Poems is a refreshing anthology capturing the spirit of diversity in an archipelago of poetic expression. Birthed from the poetry workshops in Nanyang Technological Uni...

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Local Anaesthetic: A Painless Approach to Singaporean Poetry

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Local Anaesthetic: A Painless Approach to Singaporean Poetry

  This is the book for every teacher who has ever wanted to introduce Singaporean Poetry in their Literature classroom but didn't feel confident enough about doing it. This guide, written by teache...

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Love Gathers All: The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poems

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Love Gathers All: The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poems

  Love in its many forms has historically been the touchstone of great poetry, from Li Bai to Rumi, Shakespeare to Neruda. As a first-ever joint literary venture between the Philippines and Singapo...

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Moving Words 2011: A Poetry Anthology

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Moving Words 2011: A Poetry Anthology

edited by Alvin Pang Synopsis This anthology is curated from almost 2,000 poems submitted by the Singapore public in an open poetry competition Moving Words 2011 in Singapore. Moving Words 2011 use...

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One Journey, Many Rivers

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One Journey, Many Rivers

One Journey, Many Rivers is a collection of quiet and contemplative verse as David Leo mourns the passing of his father. It explores the intricacies of a father-son relationship. Illustrated subtly...

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Over There: Poems From Singapore and Australia

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Over There: Poems From Singapore and Australia

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 of the fine...

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Reaching For Stones: Collected Poems (1963-2009)

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Reaching For Stones: Collected Poems (1963-2009)

View sample pages. Chandran Nair’s poetry has been described as impressing with its “versatility and hard brilliance of style” as well as providing an important study of how growing up in Singapore...

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Red Pulse II: Poetry to a Local Beat

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Red Pulse II: Poetry to a Local Beat

View sample pages. Red Pulse II is a rich chronicle illuminating the growth of twenty-two young Singapore poets, who, as a community, write to shape and order private and collective, national world...

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Shrines and Streetlights

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Shrines and Streetlights

Shrines and Streetlights signals the debut publication of poetry by a young, bright Singaporean, whose keen eye and alert spirit frame perspectives that belie a maturity beyond his age. With a cade...

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Somewhere A Tiny Voice

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Somewhere A Tiny Voice

 This is a collection of poems that spans 20 years of writing. The poems may appear personal, but feelings of love, grief, mirth, hope and disappointment are definitely universal. David Leo writes ...

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Sound of Mind: A Teacher-Writers Anthology of Poems and Prompts

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Sound of Mind: A Teacher-Writers Anthology of Poems and Prompts

This is an exciting offering of poems from a constellation of teacher-writers, including published and familiar authors such as Ann Ang, Ken Mizusawa, Eric Tinsay Valles, Christine Chia, Patricia M...

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Still Travelling

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Still Travelling

  Still Travelling is the much-awaited sixth book of poems by Edwin Thumboo. The last appeared in 2003. According to Jonathan Webster, Professor and Head, Department of Chinese Translation and Ling...

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Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems

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Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems

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 crisi...

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Testing The Silence

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Testing The Silence

*Do note that the books are not in mint condition (yellowed pages).  In Pang's first collection of poetry, he draws inspiration from everyday events to highlight the familiar silences that seem lad...

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The New Village

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The New Village

  The poems in The New Village were written in 1996 and 1997 in Iowa City, the University of Wisconsin – where Wong did his doctorate – and the University of California, Santa Barbara.Wong’s childh...

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They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue

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They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue

 “What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” asks Lewis Carroll’s Alice. Perhaps there isn’t any. But within this slim poetry volume, Theophilus Kwek has painted the images and a...

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Ubin Dreaming (You've Been Dreaming)

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Ubin Dreaming (You've Been Dreaming)

  Ubin Dreaming, as the title suggests, is in part inspired by the Arvon workshop organised by The Literary Centre and the National Arts Council. It reflects the literary aspirations of a still you...

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