Ownself Say Ownself: New and Selected Poems

Joshua Ip is a Singaporean poet, editor, and literary organiser. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut, sonnets from the singlish (2012), and has also published making love with scrabble tiles (2013), sonnets from the singlish UPSIZE EDITION (2015), footnotes on falling (2018), farquhar (2020), and translations to the tanglish (2021).

He won the Golden Point Award for English prose in 2013, was second for English poetry in 2011, and received an honorable mention for Chinese poetry in 2015. He has co-edited eleven literary anthologies, including the singpowrimo, a luxury we cannot afford and call and response series.

He co-founded Sing Lit Station, an overactive literary charity that runs initiatives including singpowrimo, seapowrimo and poetry.sg. He received the Young Artist Award from Singapore’s National Arts Council in 2017.

He completed his PhD in creative writing at RMIT in the practice research symposium programme in 2024.

He still wants to be a writer when he grows up.

www.joshuaip.com