Poetry

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 About the Author Gwee Li Sui’s eclectic journal in verse recounts the entire COVID-19 pandemic as experienced in Singapore. Setting...

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...

Description Praise About the Author the bright sorrow is always ringing, always ringing, and fading into forgetting In his second book, Jonatha...

Description Praise About the Author One Fierce Hour is Alfian Sa’at’s first and breakout work. It was hailed as ‘truly a landmark’ for Singapor...

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 Praise About the Author From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims ...

Description About the Author Ownself Say Ownself is a chaotic collection of new and selected poetry by Joshua Ip. Half of it is 44 poems salvag...

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 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 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 Praise About the Author Tapirus Indicus . . . Dugong Dugon . . . Cicadoidea . . . Of the Florids begins with an inability to spe...

Description Praise About the Poet As a sequence, going home unfolds with a mixture of astonishing technical assurance and intense personal and ...

Description About the Author Much like the grey clouds that leak secrets buried in their folds, this collection of poems reveals the core of a ...

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 About the Author More haikus by popular demand from Singapore's bestselling poet. In this bumper volume of 392 haikus, Gwee commen...

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

Description About the Author In her sixth collection of poetry where the real, virtual and literary mix, Heng Siok Tian travels through lands...

Description About the Author Change is what happens to everything: history is humanity's attempt to make sense of this inevitability. In his de...

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...

Description 这是诗人的第三本手写诗集，收录87首诗作，连同第一本《我走在我之上》与第二本《穿着防弹衣的我们怎么拥抱》，可视作诗人的“青春三部曲”，展现其20几岁时的半成人青涩思维，也纪念飘忽不定又自以为是的青春，趁中年风光不可知，老年风光不可见，趁，鼻息尚存。正如书名，这是...

Description Praise About the Editors The twin cinema, created by Singapore poet Yeow Kai Chai, is a rigid, yet spectacular poetic form that mix...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Tamil, Poetry) இந்த கவிதைத் தொகுப்பு மிக அடர்த்தியான கருப்பொர...

Description About the Poet It feels unkind to reveal a long-held secret of Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? published in 1988 – the published ...

Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

Description Praise About the Poet As the poet navigates through middle age, beset by questions on ageing, love and loss, and the incipient awar...

Description About the Poet This is for you, All you bothersome people Who ask about my next book, Ask whether I still draw Or write anymore. Wh...

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 Poet Does the word “childhood” call up mushy sentiments and nostalgic memories where time has given a rosy glow to what h...