Five Right Angles
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• Five Right Angles was a finalist in the 2008 Singapore Literature Prize awards
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 urban existence. New hard shapes of poetry are negotiated with an easy realism, as aspirations and character are re-shaped and transformed. Life never corresponds exactly to expectation, but a much larger picture emerges — one composed with beauty, pattern and order. What the poet finally leaves with us is the itch of conscience, very elemental dust. (adapted from Dr Gwee Li Sui’s Foreword)
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