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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: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

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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The Orchid Folios

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The Orchid Folios

  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were...

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parsetreeforestfire

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parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the other. Conventionally such a book functions as a way for a pers...

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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 ...

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A History of Amnesia

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A History of Amnesia

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 tiny space

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a tiny space

  “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 explo...

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Right of the Soil

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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 within the territory of a country to be conferred citizenship. Sin...

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A Crackle of Flames, A Circle of Rainbow

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A Crackle of Flames, A Circle of Rainbow

  what is there to a poemif the private parts of the whorecontinue to be ruptured and tatteredand the price of a cup of coffeeis morethan the worth of a thousand words in poetry — “Forgive Me, P...

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Me Migrant

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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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Lines Spark Code

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Lines Spark Code

A collection occasioned by the Ministry of Education’s desire to include the study of Singapore poetry for the A-levels. By Singapore poems, we refer not only to the ensemble of established and eme...

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

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

 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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This collection contains Prof Thumboo’s latest works. Especially interesting are the poems based on biblical characters, something very close to his heart in recent years. Some evergreens of his w...

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Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry

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Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry

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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Farquhar

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Farquhar

  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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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

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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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

“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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一首诗的时间: 第二辑

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一首诗的时间: 第二辑

  承接 2015 年 6 月的“一首诗的时间”计划，新文潮文学社于 2016 年 7 月，再次举办了三十日的写诗活动。这是一个让民众发表诗、阅读诗及进行交流的平台。活动的主题是“生活的每个角落都有诗”，试图捕捉生活中的诗意，探究空间、身体、欲望、语言、体制与社会，从生活的方方面面切入。诗人可按照指定主题、形式或艺术手法进行写作。其中除了包括以分行或分段文字为主的诗，也包括了图像诗。 “Po...

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UnFree Verse

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UnFree Verse

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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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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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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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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Giving Ground

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Giving Ground

 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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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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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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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

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

  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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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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Ars Poetica for the Day

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Ars Poetica for the Day

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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Do You Live In?

  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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& Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond

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& Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond

  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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Babel Via Negativa

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Babel Via Negativa

• 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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The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui

 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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Straight from the Heart

  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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A World In Transit

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A World In Transit

  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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Changes and Chances

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Changes and Chances

  Uncompromising yet accessible, the six sequences in Changes and Chances explore love, sorrow, time, nature, and humanity. By turns passionate, hermetic, and heartbreaking, they simultaneously end...

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

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

  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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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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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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i write a page

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 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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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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