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Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, other...

Change is what happens to everything: history is humanity's attempt to make sense of this inevitability. In his debut collection of poetry, Daryl L...

In 2008, Ng Yi-Sheng won the Singapore Literature Prize for Last Boy, a debut collection which explored the poet's coming of age as a gay man. A Bo...

Afterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet uni...

This new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga an...

In And Other Rivers, lives are carved open from tip to tail and laid out for display. A child watches her father perform a lunar new year ritual. F...

In a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion, ...

Nine years after his last volume of poetry, Felix Cheong makes a comeback - this time, a collection of poetic outtakes and more recent writings.  B...

BEEF is Nurul Amillin Hussain's debut collection of poetry. Consisting of 20 poems written over a decade, this book traces time through fresh explo...

How do we handle loss? Why do we resist and accept change? Before We Are Ghosts explores the inevitable in life, and as a sequel to Keeping Skeleto...

In his third collection of poems, Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new justifications for a more meaningful...

Bursting Seams is a raw and passionate exploration of the body through poetry. The book mines the inescapable linkages between physicality and diff...

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Caterwaul is a memoir — is scrapbook — is a wall of sound. Caterwaul chronicles the dramas of a poorly poet in circumstances beyond her control. Il...

Diving into the ambivalences and contradictions that are as characteristic of a family as her triumphs, Jerrold Yam’s rousing debut poetry collecti...

Crazy Little Pyromaniacs brings together 35 yet-unpublished Singapore poets who are 35 years-old and younger to plot future trajectories for Singap...

The city is a prism through which ordinary life, at first a seeming undifferentiated white, splits into its constituent colours. In Deeds of Light,...

Derivative Faith is a compilation of prose and poetry that attempt to document faith, in its varying iterations and manifestations. Each piece is t...

In this book, poems and street photographs dream of the modern city, laying a poetic geography over the urban landscapes of Hong Kong and Singapore...

You know a language well if it does things you don’t have control over. Bring me the words without meanings, words all meanings have abandoned, sen...

Perhaps (she wrote), you’re lucky you can hate my rhymes and never be haunted by the ghosts that compel me to write them – those figures of history...

footnotes on falling is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite, ...

This is a meditation on the ineffable sense of loss that accompanies each having. Through the death of his father, a son apprehends other deaths an...

In our deepest moments of loss, we seek safe harbours in which we can shelter every memory of every touch of the departed loved one. And occasional...

What does a first-time mother with a newborn baby perpetually latched on to her do? Why, write poems in her head, of course. Faced with memorable m...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 “This collection of poetry by interdisciplinary artist Desmond Kon is an invitation to ‘jump into the...

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

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

Keeping Skeletons is about the fight to let dreams stay alive and to remain true to oneself in a place where oppression is rife. It is an explorati...

Set against a background of social media and post-truth politics, Lamentville reflects on what we might lose as the world passes through a digital ...

Language, art, religion, disaster, death, murder, adultery, and love, all come under the poet's attention as he continues to mine the rewarding  co...

This book is a compilation of some of Ng Yi-Sheng's best spoken word pieces — songs, diatribes and phantasmagorias — created for assorted poetry sl...

Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and th...

Miho entertains you with various forms of poetry she follows or invents. In seven poems from the first section, the poet breaks an ordinary day int...

Everyday objects surround us, the unconditional keepers of confessions and secrets. They are with us in those private moments when we think we are ...

An art critic musing in the loo. An emperor obsessed with immortality. A caped superhero with unknown powers. The 'strange compulsions' of these an...

Cyril Wong's eighth collection hurls the reader into a private dream world; these dreams explore the finitude of the self, recasting the poet's pas...

Onkalo (meaning 'cave' or 'cavity') is the world's first spent nuclear repository, currently being built on the west coast of Finland. Built to la...

Pantomime is a homily for the weary social actor, seeking a place of shelter. These poems meander through the performative in society, sieving thro...

Gaston Ng’s first collection of poems pushes emotional boundaries in its reflections on the death of a parent, the implications of grief and moving...