Category Archives: Poetry
Feature: Swamp Vignette
Swamp Vignette is a floating piece, quite appropriately following ancient poets’ paths of wandering. Swamp Vignette is floating a bit further ahead, outside of the current literary consumer world, where a book is “a written text that can be published
Feature: Swamp Vignette
Swamp Vignette is a floating piece, quite appropriately following ancient poets’ paths of wandering. Swamp Vignette is floating a bit further ahead, outside of the current literary consumer world, where a book is “a written text that can be published
Me Migrant
The first two instalments of the Migrant Workers’ Poetry Competition, held in 2014 and 2015, have brought into focus an entire community of writers who previously escaped the attentions of Singapore’s wider reading public. The Competition represents an essential
Me Migrant
The first two instalments of the Migrant Workers’ Poetry Competition, held in 2014 and 2015, have brought into focus an entire community of writers who previously escaped the attentions of Singapore’s wider reading public. The Competition represents an essential
Between Word and World
With these new collections, 2015 has proven a particularly rich year for poets writing against the geographically and culturally Anglo-Saxon grain of the English language. All three poets slip between loved languages, confronting readers of British poetry not only with
Between Word and World
With these new collections, 2015 has proven a particularly rich year for poets writing against the geographically and culturally Anglo-Saxon grain of the English language. All three poets slip between loved languages, confronting readers of British poetry not only with
How many voices are in here?
Wallace Stevens once remarked on the inevitability, the necessity, of “the transposition of an objective reality to a subjective reality” in poetry and identified the relationship between “reality and the sensibility of the poet” as rooted in precisely this
How many voices are in here?
Wallace Stevens once remarked on the inevitability, the necessity, of “the transposition of an objective reality to a subjective reality” in poetry and identified the relationship between “reality and the sensibility of the poet” as rooted in precisely this
Desde Hong Kong
An unexpected collection, both in purpose and origin, Desde Hong Kong has turned out to be a surprising achievement. First, the premise: Desde Hong Kong is occasioned by the 2014 centennial celebration of Octavio Paz’s birth. Couched as “poets
Desde Hong Kong
An unexpected collection, both in purpose and origin, Desde Hong Kong has turned out to be a surprising achievement. First, the premise: Desde Hong Kong is occasioned by the 2014 centennial celebration of Octavio Paz’s birth. Couched as “poets
Hula Hooping
Adventurous, humorous and enigmatic, Tammy Ho’s debut collection, Hula hooping, takes the reader on a curious journey that explores the hidden dimensions of the self and society. A thoughtfully-composed cultural assemblage, Ho’s poetry is marked by the remarkable free-spirited spontaneity
Hula Hooping
Adventurous, humorous and enigmatic, Tammy Ho’s debut collection, Hula hooping, takes the reader on a curious journey that explores the hidden dimensions of the self and society. A thoughtfully-composed cultural assemblage, Ho’s poetry is marked by the remarkable free-spirited spontaneity
From the Void: It’s Fiction Reaches Out
Let’s begin with the rudimentary; this is not a book for philistines: the cover art of the book was posted on a social media site and was considered as possibly not meeting the site’s standards on nudity. The issue is
From the Void: It’s Fiction Reaches Out
Let’s begin with the rudimentary; this is not a book for philistines: the cover art of the book was posted on a social media site and was considered as possibly not meeting the site’s standards on nudity. The issue is
Everyone I Love Is A Stranger To Someone
Annelyse Gelman is a fearless writer. Unafraid of vulnerability, of her own sublime awkwardness, of delving deeply into pain, she reaches out towards her readers with her emotional transparency, which is never mawkish, never self-indulgent, but self-aware, wise and
Everyone I Love Is A Stranger To Someone
Annelyse Gelman is a fearless writer. Unafraid of vulnerability, of her own sublime awkwardness, of delving deeply into pain, she reaches out towards her readers with her emotional transparency, which is never mawkish, never self-indulgent, but self-aware, wise and
The Affirmation of Poetry
Do you read Harper’s Magazine? You know, the “oldest general-interest monthly in America … with its emphasis on fine writing and original thought … with a unique perspective on politics, society, the environment, and culture”? They published an article back
The Affirmation of Poetry
Do you read Harper’s Magazine? You know, the “oldest general-interest monthly in America … with its emphasis on fine writing and original thought … with a unique perspective on politics, society, the environment, and culture”? They published an article back
Singapore Review of Books 