Poetry

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

Description About the Author He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already ...

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...

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

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This tenth and final double-sized 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 Author A crucifix, a piece of underwear, a body part—these belong to a lover’s inventory that encompasses objects, places...

Description About the Author At the very start of us, I foresawevery possible ending.Professions is a poet's directory of heartbreak. The backb...

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

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

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 This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Phili...

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Description About the Author Alfian Sa’at’s first unpublished collection of writings composed when he was 22, it was first distributed unoffici...

Description About the Author Nine years after his last volume of poetry, Felix Cheong makes a comeback - this time, a collection of poetic outt...

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 sixth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, Vietnam, I...

Description About the Author The poems in this collection are best read with a glass of single malt but they work equally well in a quiet place...

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 “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 & 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 Tender Delirium is Tania De Rozario's first collection of poetry and short prose. It brings together (but is not l...

Description About the Author Two gods sit on a park bench and compare universes. A woman has to find herself after discovering she’s an unwante...

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

Description About the Author Sonnets from the Singlish upsize edition is a collection of 88 poems on love, language and the pursuit of laughter...

Description About the Author Roadkill for Beginners is Stephanie Chan’s first collection of poetry. It’s part scrapbook of love letters to plac...

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

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 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 The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

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

Description About the Author When physical spaces make way for development, we risk historical amnesia. A place evokes a sense of belonging. It...

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 footnotes on falling  is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at t...

Crazy Little Pyromaniacs brings together 35 yet-unpublished Singapore poets who are 35 years-old and younger to plot future trajectories for Singap...

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

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

Description About the Author Authored by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, The World According to Ms Erasure offers calming ways for you to get to k...

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 About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018 (Malay, Poetry) Ditulis dari tahun 2000 hingga 2016, bait-bait kata ...

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 Prefaced by an epigraph from Stendhal, this collection by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé remains unapologetically tra...

Description About the Author Authored by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love represents one more of the poet’s adventurou...