Poetry

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's second poetry collection Too Too Too Too is sensual, imaginative, narrative-driven and political. Her poetic voice is at once u...

A housewife turns into a vending machine. Zombies are coming for tea. An unnamed narrator dreams of a cat. The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Mach...

The Nomad Principle is a collection of poems based on comings and goings, and considers how physical and emotional distances map themselves on the ...

Singapore Poetry Writing Month, or as we affectionately call it, SingPoWriMo. Write one poem a day for thirty days in the cruel month of April: th...

When physical spaces make way for development, we risk historical amnesia. A place evokes a sense of belonging. It sustains our memory of who we ar...

poems for the sound of the sky before thunder is a collection that tiptoes the infinitely blurred lines between hurting, hoping & healing. It s...

Pantomime is a homily for the weary social actor, seeking a place of shelter. These poems meander through the performative in society, sieving thro...

Everyday objects surround us, the unconditional keepers of confessions and secrets. They are with us in those private moments when we think we are ...

My Lot is a Sky is an anthology of poetry by Asian women. Named after a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, an influential Iranian writer and filmmaker, th...

Miho entertains you with various forms of poetry she follows or invents. In seven poems from the first section, the poet breaks an ordinary day in...

Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and th...

Our memories are not entirely ours, each is a patch handed to us, shaped with hands that are both ours and not. Together, they form a patchwork qu...

footnotes on falling  is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite...

BEEF is Nurul Amillin Hussain's debut collection of poetry. Consisting of 20 poems written over a decade, this book traces time through fresh explo...

In a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion,...

Afterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet un...

This volume of selected poems surveys Alvin Pang's oeuvre over the past two decades, and includes significant new, previously unpublished material...

Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, othe...

This new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga a...

Cyril Wong From a crow and his famous pitcher to a story about a spiteful bee, Aesop’s fables have been known to instruct or affirm universal trut...

"The cure for anything is salt water.Sweat, tears or the ocean." Isak Dinesen This is one of my favourite quotes, and it pretty much sums up the es...

Cyril Wong’s longest and only Zen-inspired poem to date, Satori Blues is a response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post-Buddhist philosoph...

With increased global mobility of people, the phrase “go home” has been commonly used against those who are deemed as not belonging and infringing ...

Tender Delirium is Tania De Rozario's first collection of poetry and short prose. It brings together (but is not limited to) estranged lovers, desp...

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. Conven...

Sightlines is a series of poems mapped onto a collection of black and white images shot on film. These are notes on passing through diverse places ...

Two gods sit on a park bench and compare universes. A woman has to find herself after discovering she’s an unwanted clone. A man changes with every...

At the very start of us, I foresawevery possible ending.Professions is a poet's directory of heartbreak. The backbone of this collection is a cycle...

Roadkill for Beginners is Stephanie Chan’s first collection of poetry. It’s part scrapbook of love letters to places, part field guide to the peopl...

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 a work ...

“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 wav...

Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a world where growth is both man-m...

He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used ...

A crucifix, a piece of underwear, a body part—these belong to a lover’s inventory that encompasses objects, places, sensations, and other memorabil...

Alfian Sa’at’s first unpublished collection of writings composed when he was 22, it was first distributed unofficially to selected friends and coll...

The second collection of poems by Cyril Wong explores the tensions of intimate relationships and the rich emptiness of urban life, with odes and e...

Sonnets from the Singlish upsize edition is a collection of 88 poems on love, language and the pursuit of laughter. the poems are loosely translate...

Cyril Wong’s eighth collection hurls the reader into a private dream-world: these dreams explore the finitude of the self, recasting the poet’s pas...

The poems in this collection are best read with a glass of single malt but they work equally well in a quiet place at twilight. Test on a small are...

Language, art, religion, disaster, death, murder, adultery, and love, all come under the poet’s attention, as he continues to mine the rewarding co...

Who truly deserves the title 'local', and how far removed is your average 'local poet' from the term 'migrant worker'? The anthology Call and Respo...

Cyril Wong In his third collection of poems, Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new justifications for a mor...

Nine years after his last volume of poetry, Felix Cheong makes a comeback - this time, a collection of poetic outtakes and more recent writings. B-...

Edited by Jason Wee & Cyril Wong Sample Synopsis:Softblow poetry journal celebrates twelve years of publishing poetry in English, from the wide...

Inheritance: An Anthology is a collection of Singapore poetry that questions the concept of home. It searches for meaning in the quiet and persona...

Kevin J M Keane Sample OUT OF PRINT Synopsis:Memorial Day is a reflection on loss and renewal in time of war. It tells the story, in her own words...

Angela Ang, Heather Chi, S. Chua, Lee Yue Lin, Desiree Lim, Loh Junxing, Armiliah Aripin, Jasmine Pang, Dawn Toh, Samantha Toh and Tsjeng Zhiying ...

Vivienne Yeo Sample Synopsis:“This collection of poems represents for me the ideal of embracing life and living in the present moment as if it wer...