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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...

Hold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from open eyes and endless insomnia. Christina ...

translated by Zakaria Ali and Muhammad Herwanto Johari Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s poems are not written to be pretty: there is blood, pus, rape, slim...

A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore is a 19th century reference book (on philology? art history? anthropology? nobody remembers) that fell i...

This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the poems based on biblical characters,...

Unapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian’s second collection of verse delves in greater depth the concerns in his first volume and moves into ...

Singapore is a country of many invented, transplanted, or self-made myths and fables, but one looms above them all. 1969 marks the famous declarati...

What does the future of Singapore hold? In 2015, the anthology A Luxury We Cannot Afford commemorated 50 years of man-made myth — 50 years of myste...

In a lasting marriage, one could still outlive the other. A poet gazes upon his older partner, pondering the inevitable. Panic, heartache, and a su...

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...

illustrated by Speak Cryptic From a crow and his famous pitcher to a story about a spiteful bee, Aesop’s fables have been known to instruct or affi...

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...

Babel Via Negativa is a collection of hybrid scripting, described by Lily Hoang as a “menagerie” with “tweets suspended in hypotaxis, an intertextu...

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...

With crayons and stained paper, artist Ho Chee Lick wanders around neighbourhoods in Singapore observing, perceiving, looking for that “something”:...

Cordelia, Grace Chia’s second poetry collection, excavates from the imagery of life, art and modernity to create a mélange of fragmented colours in...

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...

Afraid of poetry? Unable to make sense of a poem, let alone enjoy it? Having trouble discussing the web of meanings within a poem or, worse, writin...

Always surveying the tumult and tedium of the cities' lost horizon, the poet ferries between his memoryscape and his share of reality, reinstalling...

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...

What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should a work ...

This is spoken word. This will make you feel things. This is a poet illustrating her own book. This is in alien language. This is an angry bedtime ...

Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself. In his third collection, Theop...

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...

hyperlinkage is an experiment with a central hypothesis: that words can connect disparate points of view, plural experiences, multifarious crystall...

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

"Within these pages are confessions, professions of unlove; untuk hati yang tak reti cinta lantang. Still swimming in the valley of spirituality, t...

"The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the ocean." Isak Dinesen This is one of my favourite quotes, and it pretty much sums up the e...

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...

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