Poetry

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 About the Author Queer desire and religion collide in the sinews of plants, trees, and roots, traversing villages in medieval Fran...

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

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

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 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 “The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees are turning orange with pain.” This collection em...

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 Praise About the Author A Collection of Dreamscapes by Christina Sng is an exploration of the darkness inside us, the shadow-sel...

Description Praise About the Author Hold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from...

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

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 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 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...

Description About the Poet This collection brings together in one volume, the author’s first four volumes of poetry which have long been out of...

Description About the Poet From the author’s Introductory Note: “In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over i...

Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

Description About the Poet Paul Tan’s fourth collection shuttles between two metropolises. In Tokyo, the new and the picturesque compete with t...

Description About the Poet From the poet’s Preface: When love ends, what do you keep? Some autumns ago, I met a remarkable woman and we fell in...

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 This is a book of poems by popular YouTube personality and Instragrammer Nicole Choo. With musings that range from...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description Praise About the Author Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territ...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

There are numerous books on life in Singapore. But none like this. In the first of its kind, veteran journalist, Andre Yeo, captures everyday life ...

Description About the Poet This volume could well be subtitled the social history of Singapore in 120 haiku. There are haiku about MRT breakdow...

Description Food Republic is a generous serving of Singapore's food culture: from the making and eating of food, to the sale and hawking of it,...

Description About the Poet Gwee Li Sui once again shatters expectations from his verse with this gloriously macabre book. Death Wish distils al...

Description About the Poet The fifth volume of poetry by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets carries in addition several hybrid pieces ...

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

Description About the Authors With increased global mobility of people, the phrase “go home” has been commonly used against those who are deeme...

Description About the Author parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poem...

Description About the Author Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as...

Description About the Author What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Shou...

Description Praise About the Author Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award 3,000 people go missing every year i...

Description “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,...

Description About the Author Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a...