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 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 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 About the Author The poems in this collection take you through cities in bodies that don’t quite belong. They speak through moments...

Description About the Author Alfian Sa’at’s first unpublished collection of writings composed when he was 22, it was first distributed unoffici...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 In 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six...

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 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 "Migrant. Citizen. Foreign Talent. Singaporean. Local. Expatriate. Immigrant. Permanent Resident. Migrant Worker.” What do these wo...

Description About the Author The second collection of poems by Cyril Wong explores the tensions of intimate relationships and the rich emptines...

Description About the Author & Photographer Sightlines is a series of poems mapped onto a collection of black and white images shot on film...

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

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 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 Sign Language for the Death of Reason tries to make sense of a post-traumatic life in poems that are mesmerising in their beauty an...

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 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...

Description About the Author In a lasting marriage, one could outlive the other. A poet gazes upon his older partner, pondering the inevitable....

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 A Luxury: Omnibus Edition is simultaneously a time capsule and a time-machine. The first volume, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, bottled...

Description About the Author Change is what happens to everything: history is humanity's attempt to make sense of this inevitability. In his de...

Description About the Author poems for the sound of the sky before thunder is a collection that tiptoes the infinitely blurred lines between hu...

Description About the Author Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's second poetry collection Too Too Too Too is sensual, imaginative, narrative-driven and politic...

Description About the Author A housewife turns into a vending machine. Zombies are coming for tea. An unnamed narrator dreams of a cat. The Wom...

Description About the Author The Nomad Principle is a collection of poems based on comings and goings, and considers how physical and emotional...

Description About the Editors Singapore Poetry Writing Month, or as we affectionately call it, SingPoWriMo. Write one poem a day for thirty day...

Description About the Author Pantomime is a homily for the weary social actor, seeking a place of shelter. These poems meander through the perf...

Description About the Author Everyday objects surround us, the unconditional keepers of confessions and secrets. They are with us in those priv...

Description About the Editors My Lot is a Sky is an anthology of poetry by Asian women. Named after a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, an influentia...

Description About the Author Miho entertains you with various forms of poetry she follows or invents. In seven poems from the first section, th...

Description About the Author Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how per...

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

Description Praise BEEF is Nurul Amillin Hussain's debut collection of poetry. Consisting of 20 poems written over a decade, this book traces t...

Description About the Author In a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as qu...

Description About the Author Afterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry colle...

Description About the Author As Singapore's 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature, Alvin Pang is active internationally as a poet, writ...

Description Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore—all of whom with a pining for “the composition of alternatives, other r...