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A History of Amnesia (Ethos Classics)

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Unapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian Sa’at’s second collection of verse delves deeper into the concerns in his first volume and moves into reclaiming our collective history and memory. I...

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“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, ...

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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)

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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)

Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback. Catching crickets after school, waiting for class t...

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Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback. “at 26—/ the earthquakes began—// tell me,/ how was...

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“Now you are gone and for a while my womb lost its voice and forgot how to sing. / What is a song but a daughter’s love transcending time and space? / I am learning to listen.” When her beloved dog...

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dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风)

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About the Book dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风) is a poetry collection that explores mixed race, bilingualism and the complexities of living in a society still entrapped within the CMIO model of race. In ...

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Patient History

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Winner of the poetry category, The Writers' Centre Literary Awards 2024, NUS Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each...

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Floating Clouds Beyond The Elastic Limit

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  Insisting on collective and common memories, Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit champions a new national literature grounded in the histories of a restless tribe, we who have found a home a...

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A Flying Crystal

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  A Flying Crystal, Lin Gao’s first poetry book, collects the first blushes of language in its encounters with emotions. Poetic form and emotional resonance come together as a flying crystal that d...

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A Walk With My Pig

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Winner, Best Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2024 - Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gwee Li Sui A Walk with My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s unfinished magnum opus, seen for the first time...

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A Bad Girl's Book of Animals

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From the Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2022 Available in paperback and e-book* format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback....

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring is a multi-publisher, not-for-profit collaboration that aims to amplify the voices of the Burmese people alongside the ongoing Civil Disobedience Mov...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2022)  Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a ...

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Some Say, A Tapir

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Featuring new work from Alfian Sa’at, Christine Chia and Yong Shu Hoong, Some Say, A Tapir recaptures the year 1299 of Singapore’s history. The collection delves into stories—both living and legend...

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  Singaporeans are familiar with the popular mythos of Sir Stamford Raffles, sole and exclusive founder of modern Singapore, who called a bustling port into being with his mighty hand, where only a...

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Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry

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This anthology collects over 100 poems from Singapore, Asia and around the world, and is aimed at the adolescent reader. It seeks to cultivate a love of poetry and an exploration of real-world issu...

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

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  How do we understand the history and landscape of our country? In this bicentennial year, Contour charts a lyric cartography of Singapore, taking in events from the past seven hundred years while...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the o...

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Teaching Poetry To Adolescents: A Teacher's Guide to Little Things (first edition)

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Teaching Poetry To Adolescents: A Teacher's Guide to Little Things (first edition)

In this Teachers’ Guide, Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent introduce effective and inspirational ideas and strategies for teaching poetry in the secondary Literature classroom that both ...

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“I stand and face the sea,as the waves come crashing to the shore, the music of the sea is thunderous and loud.Yet I am unafraid, I chase the waves, I run about,excited but calm, I want to explore,...

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Right of the Soil

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020 Read 4 poems from Right of the Soil → The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born wit...

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GAZE BACK

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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020) 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 ...

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

“Most things in the world around us have poems hidden in them waiting to be revealed if we have the will to pay attention and see them with the heart.” — Anne Lee Tzu Pheng With crayons and stained...

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UnFree Verse

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Second Edition   Rhyme is Shakespeare. Rhythm is rap. Sing Lit is free verse. If you’ve ever had such thoughts, let this book demolish them. With poems drawn from 80 years of print and online mater...

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

Sample Pages Four writers. Three travelling in Portugal. One staying behind to care for his ailing mother. One long-distance writing affair. The passing of the mother together with memories of othe...

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This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry & Photography

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  The city has never been ours; it is fleeting, a collection of habits and faint peals of laughter from glass towers.  The old rivers are covered up, disinfected, bricked. Still we flood, still we ...

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems is a historically significant collection of poetry by Teo Kah Leng: an educator whose love for art and literature preceded his name. He served as teacher, principal, ...

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Me Migrant

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View sample pages Me migrantBeyond bordersMislaying smilesDawn to dusk then dawn again Me Migrant features the poems of Md Mukul Hossine – poems originally written in Bengali by Mukul, transcreated...

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Giving Ground

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 Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself. In his third collection, Theophilus Kwek enters and examines the unfamiliar, gi...

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Phedra

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Phedra is a poetry collection of re-interpreted mythology – with an emphasis on female identity – which delves into the juxtaposition of idolatry and banality. Read 4 poems → Listen to Euginia read...

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Spomenik

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  Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and places bookmark a glimpse of life across a multitude of cities, crossing terrains of history, w...

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Bitter Punch

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  Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize  Bitter Punch is Loh Guan Liang’s second collection of poetry. With a wry eye for the everyday and its often forgotten characters, Loh explores...

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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

“We teeter between celebration and hubris, between the trump card of capitalism and the burning of the gifts for the dead. We are waiting for Godzilla to arise out of the sea and take back what is ...

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

 Who is Francis P. Ng? This question consumed the mind of Japanese scholar Eriko Ogihara-Schuck as she read F.M.S.R. A Poem by Francis P. Ng in her study of how the poet T. S. Eliot had influenced ...

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UNION : 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore

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  UNION traces the intertwining trajectories of two dynamic communities: the cosmopolitan Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore, commemorating 50 years of national independence and writing, to ce...

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Ars Poetica for the Day

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Lim’s poems are penetrating accounts of a life lived as a poet devoted to her art. View sample pages.

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Do You Live In?

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Do You Live In?

  These poems are related to Lim’s travels, and her having lived in various lands, including USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. View sample pages.

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(Imperfect) Unhomed

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK and Europe

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK and Europe

 Tracking the developments of Asian diaspora poetry in America, Australia, UK and Europe, To Gather Your Leaving is a groundbreaking global anthology that explores new ways of looking at nation, cu...

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A Gathering of Themes

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020This collection contains Prof Thumboo’s latest works. Especially interesting are the poems based on biblical characters, something ver...

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Never Before—50 Essential Poems / 不可预期—诗精50首

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Never Before—50 Essential Poems / 不可预期—诗精50首

  不可预期，是对于过往的敬意，现在的奋斗，以及未来的期待。半个世纪，五十首精选，时长两年的整理、梳理，解构又重新建构下，清晰谱出现代诗歌的本土传统与承继。欲兴文学，诗必先锋，诗人敏锐的洞悉与感知能力，往往为生活环境印刻下“当下”的见证，不仅让后者有迹可寻，亦让不同的“当下”在轮回中找到知音。五十首充满前瞻性、趣味性的作品，有意开辟读者对于新华诗作的新想象，并将阅读的心带回到最初的悸动与感动...

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SG Poems 2017-2018

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SG Poems 2017-2018 brings together established and emerging poets from the island's various linguistic traditions in a space where everyone can demand respect. This volume allows them also to give ...

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A Crackle of Flames, A Circle of Rainbow

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 Note: As the books are not in mint condition, this title is being sold at a discounted price. Do expect your copy to have foxing/yellowed pages. Please refer to product images for details.   what...

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Love at the Gallery

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Love at the Gallery

View sample pages Writing about love is a challenge. How does one verbalise an intimate and inexpressible feeling? How does one top the Bard and a steady flood of poets and songwriters? But still w...

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SG Poems 2015-2016

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This anthology showcases a representative sample of Singapore poetry written in or translated into English, our common language, in 2015 and 2016. Several poets who published collections during tha...

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Pilgrimage

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In 2001, the prolific Singapore author Isa Kamari undertook the pilgrimage to Mecca. Two years later, he wrote a series of 100 poems based on this experience which was published in Malay as Munajat...

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Unhomed

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  In the works of the young Singaporean writers in this anthology, the young writers expressed the anxieties of being unhomed on different levels—personal, domestic, societal—and through varying mo...

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Crossing Universes

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  A companion to Unhomed, the other chapbook in the LIVEpress series, Crossing Universes begins with Theophilus Kwek’s “On Roads and Rituals”, a reflection on why we travel and what it means to be ...

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一首诗的时间 2015

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一首诗的时间 2015

  2015年6月份，新文潮文学社在脸书上举办了“一首诗的时间”网络写诗活动。 “一首诗2015”的编委连续30天，每天准时于凌晨贴上一个主题（与加分题），让诗人按照主题创作一首诗。这本诗集结集收录了诗人对主题的回应，显示了新加坡新一代以华文创作的诗人的作品，其不仅自由而恣意，也展现出众声喧哗的特色。 Co-published by TrendLit and Ethos Books, In ...

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Right of the Soil (Chapbook)

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“What haunts me is not the ghosts that reputedly roam the second floor of the E&O Hotel, but the 44-year-old hawker who got buried under the road that we’re speeding across...” The phrase “righ...

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