Poetry

Description About the Author A crucifix, a piece of underwear, a body part—these belong to a lover’s inventory that encompasses objects, places...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book Softblow poetry journal celebrates twelve years of publishing poetry in English, from...

Description About the Author In a lasting marriage, one could outlive the other. A poet gazes upon his older partner, pondering the inevitable....

Description About the Author In his third collection of poems, Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new jus...

Description About the Author The second collection of poems by Cyril Wong explores the tensions of intimate relationships and the rich emptines...

Description About the Author & Illustrator From a crow and his famous pitcher to a story about a spiteful bee, Aesop’s fables have been kno...

Description About the Author Cyril Wong’s longest and only Zen-inspired poem to date, Satori Blues is a response to writings by teachers of Bud...

Description About the Author Cyril Wong’s eighth collection hurls the reader into a private dream-world: these dreams explore the finitude of t...

Description About the Author Language, art, religion, disaster, death, murder, adultery, and love, all come under the poet’s attention, as he c...