Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home
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 other losses and absences come together in Lost Bodies, a meditation on the transience of time and love and an invitation to get away—physically or spiritually—from worldly concerns to explore a different history, a different culture, a different light, laced with dreamy scents and the faint calls of fado.
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Heng Siok Tian has published five collections of poetry: Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems (1993), My City, My Canvas (1999), Contouring (2004), Is My Body a Myth (2011) and Mixing Tongues (2011). Her poems have been anthologised in publications such as Journeys: Words, Home and Nation, No Other City: An Anthology of Urban Poetry and Moving Worlds. She also wrote short stories and short plays. She was a Fellow with the Iowa International Writing Program in 2000 (on a National Arts Council Fellowship). She also participated in literary events in China, Denmark, France, the US and the Philippines.
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Phan Ming Yen is the author of a collection of short fiction, That Night by the Beach and Other Stories for A Film Score (2012), and co-compiler of Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952–2008 (2009). His writing has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One (2013) and Kulit: Asian Literature for the Language Classroom (2013). He was also a contributor to the recently published Singapore Soundscape: Musical Renaissance of a Global City (2014). Phan is at present CEO-designate of Global Cultural Alliance, a not-for profit cultural diplomacy agency.
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Yong Shu Hoong has previously authored five poetry collections, including Frottage (2005) and The Viewing Party (2013), which both won the Singapore Literature Prize. His poems and short stories have been published in literary journals like Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), and anthologies like Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008).
He has edited anthologies like Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys (2013), as well as Here Now There After (2017), which was commissioned for the #BuySingLit movement. He is one of the four co-authors of The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015) and Lost Bodies: Poems Between Portugal and Home (2016).
Yong lives in Singapore, where he teaches part-time at Republic Polytechnic and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He was writer-in-residence at NTU from August 2013 to February 2014. In February and March 2016, he is the Presidential International Visiting Scholar at Wheelock College, Boston, in the United States.
Yeow Kai Chai has two poetry collections, Secret Manta (2001), which was adapted from an entry shortlisted for the 1995 Singapore Literature Prize; and Pretend I’m Not Here (2006). His poems have appeared in publications such as the US-based W.W. Norton anthology, Language for a New Century (2008), and France’s La Traductiere (2012), while his short stories are featured in Balik Kampung (2012) and Twenty-Four Flavours (2013). A former journalist and a music reviewer for The Straits Times, he also edits creative prose for Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. His third poetry collection, One to the Dark Tower Comes, is forthcoming.
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