Poetry

Description Praise About the Author Why do we love in the way that we do? This debut collection by Kimberley Chia Qin takes up the question thr...

Description About the Author Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular is a poetry collection that asks ‘How many times can you rewrite a poem?’...

Description About the Author Interspersing lyric poetry, photography and the heart-wrenching lyrics of 90s jiwang, nor’s Ginsberg, sing me a ji...

Description About the Author Loosely modelled after an otome (乙女; lit. trans. “young girl”) game, with special illustrations by JOYRU (Jie Ru L...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Chrystal Ho delivers a debut that is both urgent and inti...

Praise About the Author “One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, a...

Description Praise About the Author These poems strive to leap out of the collection. These poems build a bed, watch a cult film, and read the ...

Description Praise About the Author & Editor “at 26—/ the earthquakes began—// tell me,/ how was I supposed to feel at home// when the grou...

Description Praise About the Author One of Singapore’s oldest public housing estates, the name “Commonwealth” also gestures to the long tail of...

Description Praise About the Author Cheng Him’s explosive debut poetry collection is a narrative-in-poems exploring the inner psyche of the myt...

Description Praise About the Authors Pounding beneath rib/cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through t...

Description About the Editor Waves Rising is a volume that aims to recover the voice of Ho Poh Fun, an accomplished poet and fiction writer in ...

Description Praise About the Author “Now you are gone and for a while my womb lost its voice and forgot how to sing. / What is a song but a dau...

Description Contributors About the Editors Rhyme is Shakespeare. Rhythm is rap. Sing Lit is free verse. If you’ve ever had such thoughts, let t...

Description About the Author Patrick had a way with words, penning ditties and birthday notes to cherished friends and family members throughou...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize “The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees a...

Description Praise About the Author A redefining, new collection of experimental poetry from Singaporean poet Hao Guang Tse. A breakthrough col...

Description Praise About the Author Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and places ...

Description Praise About the Editors With a foreword by Professor Dennis Haskell and afterword by Tay Kheng Soon There is no other city quite l...

Description Praise About the Author A History of Amnesia is listed in the notable books list by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award (administer...

Description Praise About the Author At home with loneliness and passing encounters, can we be familiar with another or even ourselves? Does lov...

Description Praise About the Author Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writin...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize (English Poetry)  …At the very start of us, I foresaw e...

Description Praise About the Author “Patient history” is a medical term describing the method by which doctors gather information about a patie...

Description Praise About the Author & Editor Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gwee Li Sui A Walk With My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s u...

Description About the Author A city girl’s one-year quest to heal, explore and evolve.The courage to take back her power changed everything. Wh...

Description About the Author and Illustrator He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers y...

Description About the Author He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already ...

Description About the Author Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate...

Description for now, new york: is a poetry collection by Tze Sheng Milton Wong, designed by August Ramos, about New York City, goodbyes, love, ...

Description About The Author Singapore poet and writer Koh Buck Song casts his ever-curious eye over the Gallery’s artworks, events and spaces ...

Description Look inside the book这是一本走出来的书。 作者立志要写一本有关新加坡地景的诗集。走路，是他采用的方式， 或随步行队、或与摄影同好，或独自一人，漫游岛国，深入了解、 仔细观察，四处采集资料素材。相机，是他的工具，通过镜头，审 视眼中所见、直击...

Description About the Translator One is forcibly struck by the attention Tan Swie Hian’s multidisciplinary creation has commanded over the yea...

Description Praise About the Author Desiring Light is Ameera Aslam's first collection of poetry & prose. They are about traversing the spi...

Description Praise About the Author “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last eveni...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Chinese, Poetry)Winner of the Readers' Favourite 2020 (Chines...

林高与诗不期而遇，陆续赏读了19位新加坡诗人的作品。19位，而不是9位，29位，或更少更多，亦因缘巧合。然则，此集子不涉及新加坡现代诗歌发展史的建构，没有意图论述新加坡现代诗歌创作理论的发展轨迹。推介佳作，化之为蒲公英，飘飞到你跟前，飘飞到更远更广，是本书的心愿。 评论亦一种再创作。林高之评论...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Chinese, Poetry) 以纯真与真挚的情感写下令人易懂、易感的诗，像是赤脚在原始的天地跑，脚底磨破或刮伤后，时而...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Chinese, Poetry) 以纯真与真挚的情感写下令人易懂、易感的诗，像是赤脚在原始的天地跑，脚底磨破或刮伤后，时而...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Author The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into Eng...

Description About the Author This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's mos...

Description About the Author A Tribute to the Lion City: The Jewel of Southeast Asia is a compilation of the writings of Daisaku Ikeda, Preside...

Description Praise About the Author Theophilus Kwek’s first UK collection is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that beco...

Description About the Poet Edwin Thumboo, one of Singapore’s pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio-cultural histor...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the po...

Description This anthology collects over 100 poems from Singapore, Asia and around the world, and is aimed at the adolescent reader. It seeks t...