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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

Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2022)  “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 braid...

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Some Say, A Tapir

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Some Say, A Tapir

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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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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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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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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parsetreeforestfire

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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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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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a tiny space

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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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Right of the Soil

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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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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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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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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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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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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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SG Poems 2015-2016

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

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

 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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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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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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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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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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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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Pilgrimage

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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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From Walden to Woodlands: An Anthology of Nature Poems

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From Walden to Woodlands: An Anthology of Nature Poems

  From Walden to Woodlands is an interfaith anthology of poetry about nature in Singapore. Showcasing a diverse range of writings from a kaleidoscope of faith perspectives, this collection draws in...

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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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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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