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Personal Story
Review of Marie Howe’s Magdalene (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017) by Cyril Wong Confessional poetry or self-revelatory verse that draws from the private or the autobiographical usually gets vilified...
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Stepchild of the Sublime
Review of Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) by Cyril Wong At the heart of every book of poems by Louise Glück, there is a journey-arc of thought and...
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3rd Singapore Poetry Contest
To celebrate Poetry Writing Month this April, Singapore Poetry is holding its third annual poetry contest. We are looking for poems that include the word “Singapore” (or its variants) in some creative...
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How to Build an American Home
Review of Jennifer S. Cheng’s House A (USA: Omnidawn, 2016) by Tse Hao Guang Jennifer S. Cheng’s debut collection of poems House A draws power from repetition, like waves or the stacking of bricks....
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That Which Flashes ‘Upon That Inward Eye’
Review of Greg Hewett’s Blindsight (USA: Coffee House Press, 2016) by Ian Tan Earth, isn’t this what you want: to arise within us, invisible? Isn’t it your dream to be wholly invisible someday?—O...
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Poetry After the Fall
Review of Belmont by Stephen Burt (USA: Graywolf Press, 2013) by Ng Yi-Sheng It’s thoroughly strange to review a book like this in a world where Donald Trump’s just been elected President. Over the...
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Speaking Against
Review of Cyril Wong’s The Lover’s Inventory (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2015) by Andrew Howdle Since the biennial Singapore Literary Prize expanded into categories, it has favoured joint winners...
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Literarily Singapore
In conjunction with the 2nd Singapore Literature Festival in NYC (Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2016), Lambda Literary has just published a “Singapore Literary Portfolio.” Featuring three festival authors, the...
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“Tepid Water”
Review of We Were Always Eating Expired Things by Cheryl Julia Lee (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2014) By R. A. Briggs Cheryl Julia Lee’s first collection, shortlisted for this year’s...
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New Poems by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
The poems below by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé will appear in his forthcoming collection Reading to Ted Hesburgh (Squircle Line Press and Glass Lyre Press, 2017). f is for form and finitude by...
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The Frontier as Covered Ground
The Frontier as Covered Ground: A Review of Carl Phillips’ Reconnaissance by Ian Tan There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so...
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Nothing Important Happened Today
Nothing Important Happened Today by Claudia Serea Reviewed by Eric Norris Reviews are reviews. We take them with a grain of salt. We may pick up the book in question, we may not, if...
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To a Young Poet (on Singapore’s 51st Birthday)
To a Young Poet by Jee Leong Koh Quit the country soon as you can before you’re set on a career path or marrying the home ownership scheme. Pay no heed to the village elders. They are secretly...
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Red Flower, Chinese Silences
Review of Jenny Tseng’s Red Flower, White Flower (Marick Press, 2013 (Translated by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen) and Timothy Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences (Les Figues, 2016) Review by Cyril Wong...
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2nd Singapore Poetry Contest – First Prize Winner
President’s Day by Josh Lefkowitz What kind of ego do you have to have To think you cannot stand to be Around even the mere friends of your ex Sorry Amanda I’m outing you by name In this here poem we...
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Special Focus on Justin Chin –“Incontinence”
Part Four of our Special Focus on Justin Chin reprints a poem from his last book of poems Gutted, which was named a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. The title poem is a multivalent, multi-form...
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2nd Singapore Poetry Contest – Second Prize Winner
Metamorphosis by Ankita Anand Politicians double up as salons Offering makeovers. If today you ask a city its name, It will look into your eyes seductively And ask, “What do you want it to be? I...
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2nd Singapore Poetry Contest – Third Prize Winner
I’m Supposed to Teach by Sara Backer the meaning of redundancy. For example: They went skydiving in mid-air. Where else could you skydive? I ask anticipating laughter, receiving silent stares. My...
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Special Focus on Justin Chin –“Poison”
This is the second part of our “Special Focus” on Justin Chin. The series highlights an important aspect of the work of an established Singapore author. You can read Part 1, Justin Chin’s “Buffed Fag,”...
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2nd Singapore Poetry Contest Results
We are very pleased to announce the results of the 2nd Singapore Poetry Contest. Open to everyone who is NOT a Singaporean citizen or permanent resident in Singapore, the annual contest sought poems...
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