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 voice to what is human and true amid the perplexities of contemporary life. This volume presents new work on the themes "Regardless of Race" and "In Spirit," which inspired Poetry Festival (Singapore) in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The volume is at once a reference book, with representative work from some of Singapore's most widely read poets, and a sampler that introduces new and published poets in Chinese, Malay or Tamil in English translation. May this selection be another record of the growth of Singapore poetry and provide a spur to further reading. 


About National Poetry Festival


Poetry Festival (Singapore) [PFS] celebrates the island's poetry in all its four official languages through lectures, readings, workshops and publications by both established and emerging poets. 

Poetry Festival (Singapore) [PFS] offers a multilingual, multicultural, multi-generational platform for poets and poetry enthusiasts in the appreciation of the art of poetry in Singapore. PFS aims also to develop the written and spoken word in the island's four official languages and to organize events and activities related to literature as well as the other arts. 


 

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Leonard Ng

Leonard Ng serves as Chief Editor of Contour. He is the author of the poetry collections This Mortal World and Changes and Chances, the former shortlisted for the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize. He is also the translator of several classical Chinese works into English, including the Laozi Dao De Jing, The Art of War, The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji, and Lu Ji’s Rhapsody on Literature. His work has also appeared in the journals Asymptote, Ceriph, Kitaab, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, as well as in the anthologies Love Gathers All, Coast, From Walden to Woodlands, and Union.

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Tan Chee Lay

Tan Chee Lay has lived in Singapore, Taiwan and the UK, and has studied Chinese Literature, English Studies and Business Administration. He completed his doctorate in Oriental Studies (Chinese literature) at St John’s College, Cambridge University. He was awarded the Young Artist Award and the Singapore Youth Award (Culture & the Arts). He is currently an Associate Professor in Chinese in NIE, NTU. Chee Lay has published and edited over 20 creative writing or academic books.

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Chow Teck Seng

Singapore-born, Chow Teck Seng writes poetry primarily in Chinese. Frequently contributing to literary journals, anthologies and the Chinese press in Singapore and abroad, he has won awards such as the Singapore Literature Prize (2014) and Golden Point Award (2009). His poems in English translation are found in &Words (Ethos Books), Union (Ethos Books), SG Poems 2015–2016 and poetry at Sangam and have been adapted into short films by LASALLE students. A former lecturer in Chinese- language Literature at NUS and NIE, he is currently pursuing a PhD at Cambridge University.

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Azhar Ibrahim

Azhar Ibrahim, PhD., is a Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. He teaches Malay-Indonesian literature and ideologies of development at the Department. His research interest includes sociology of religion, sociology of literature and critical literacy, and Malay-Indonesian intellectual development. Amongst his published books are: Emancipated Education (2019), Historical Imagination and Cultural Responses to Colonialism and Nationalism: A Critical Malay(sian) Perspective (2017), Menyanggah Belenggu Kerancuan Fikiran Masakini (2016), Contemporary Islamic Discourse in the Malay-Indonesia World: Critical Perspectives (2014), Narrating Presence: Awakening from Cultural Amnesia (2014).

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Krishnasamy Kanagalatha

Krishnasamy Kanagalatha has published three collections of poetry in Tamil: Theeveli (Firespace) (2003), Paampuk Kaattil Oru Thaazhai (A Screwpine in Snakeforest) (2004) and Yaarukkum Illaatha Paalai (No Man’s Desert) (2016). She has also published a short story collection Naan Kolai Seyium Penkkal (The Woman I Murder) (2007), which won the biennial Singapore Literature Prize in 2008. The English translation of her short story collection The Goddess in the Living Room was published in 2014. Her poems and short stories have been published in multilingual anthologies in Singapore and various Tamil literary journals in India, Malaysia, France and Sri Lanka. Her works have been translated into English, French and German. Kanagalatha is one of the founding directors of Poetry Festival Singapore. She is currently the Associate Editor of Tamil Murasu, Singapore’s Tamil daily newspaper.

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