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 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...

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 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 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 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 (Chinese, Poetry) 这是作者的第三本诗集，收入了作者自1996年来的六十多首诗，全书按照写作时间分成两辑，比...

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 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 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 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...

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 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 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 “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...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This tenth and final double-sized issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and abou...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore,...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Phili...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book This seventh issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Malaysia, Vi...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This sixth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, Vietnam, I...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This fifth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philip...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book This fourth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and abou...

Description Praises About the Editors   Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book This third issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Specu...

Description About the Poet Look inside the book “This collection of poems represents for me the ideal of embracing life and living in the prese...

Description Praise About the Author Selected by The Straits Times as one of the Best Books of 2012 Look inside the book In poems that shuttle b...