Poetry

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 ...