Singapore Poetry — Singapore Unbound

Poetry After The Fall

Poetry After The Fall

Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Belmont by Stephen Burt (USA: Graywolf Press, 2013).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohSeptember 6, 2017Ng Yi-Sheng, Stephen Burt, Graywolf PressComment

Have a Helping of Mackerel

Have a Helping of Mackerel

SP interviews cultural magazine Mackerel co-founders Marc Nair and Carolyn Oei.

InterviewJee KohSeptember 5, 2017Marc Nair, Carolyn OeiComment

Medusa in Singapore

Medusa in Singapore

Inez Tan reviews Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper (Singapore and London: Epigram Books, 2017).

ReviewJee KohSeptember 2, 2017Inez Tan, Nuraliah Norasid, Epigram BooksComment

Alternative Facts

Alternative Facts

Angus Whitehead reviews Paul Beatty's The Sellout (USA: Picador, 2016).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohSeptember 1, 2017Paul Beatty, Angus Whitehead, PicadorComment

Speaking Against

Speaking Against

Andrew Howdle reviews Cyril Wong’s The Lover’s Inventory (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2015).

Review, PoetryJee KohAugust 31, 2017Cyril Wong, Andrew Howdle, Math Paper PressComment

The Writer as Historian

The Writer as Historian

P. J. Thum reviews Written Country, edited by Gwee Li Sui (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2016).

Review, Poetry, FictionJee KohAugust 30, 2017Gwee Li Sui, P. J. Thum, Landmark BooksComment

Writing the South Seas

Writing the South Seas

Philip Holden (National University of Singapore) interviews Brian Bernards on the publication of a Southeast Asian edition of his book Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature by NUS Press.

InterviewJee KohAugust 28, 2017Brian Bernards, Philip Holden, South SeasComment

How to Build an American Home

How to Build an American Home

Tse Hao Guang reviews Jennifer S. Cheng’s House A (USA: Omnidawn, 2016).

Review, PoetryJee KohAugust 25, 2017Jennifer S. Cheng, Tse Hao Guang, Omnidawn Comment

Nothing Little "About a Little Life"

Nothing Little "About a Little Life"

Kevin Tan Kwan Wei reviews A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (USA: Doubleday, 2015).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 25, 2017Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, Hanya Yanagihara, DoubledayComment

Singapore Tooth and Claw

Singapore Tooth and Claw

Stewart Dorward reviews Meddling and Murder by Ovidia Yu (USA: Killer Reads/Harper Collins, 2017).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 24, 2017Ovidia Yu, Stewart Dorward, Killer Reads, Harper CollinsComment

Stepchild of the Sublime

Stepchild of the Sublime

Cyril Wong reviews Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).

Poetry, ReviewJee KohAugust 23, 2017Louise Glück, Cyril Wong, Farrar Straus and GirouxComment

Creating a More Inclusive National Day

Creating a More Inclusive National Day

Esteemed independent journalist Kirsten Han on making National Day truly our own.

EssayJee KohAugust 21, 2017Kirsten Han, National DayComment

The Impossible Cartoonist

The Impossible Cartoonist

Y.S. Pek explores the different pathways of reading Sonny Liew's Eisner-winning graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye.

Art, Fiction, CriticismJee KohAugust 20, 2017Y.S. Pek, Sonny LiewComment

Learning to Speak Up for Exactly What You Want

Learning to Speak Up for Exactly What You Want

Inez Tan reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017).

Fiction, ReviewJee KohAugust 2, 2017Balli Kaur Jaswal, Inez TanComment

The First Singapore Unbound Fellowship Award Event

The First Singapore Unbound Fellowship Award Event

The first Singapore Unbound Fellowship was presented to Nur Sabrina binte Dzulkifli in a special event in Singapore.

EventJee KohJuly 24, 2017Nur Sabrina binte Dzulkifli, Joel Bertrand Tan, Pooja Nansi, Teo Xiao Ting, Nuraliah Norasid, Philip Holden, Tan Dan Feng, Constance Singam, Rehina Pereira, Claire Wong, Nabilah Said, Mahirah Abdul Latif, Jon Gresham, Yishio Matsuzaki, Artistry CafeComment

3rd Singapore Poetry Contest Results

3rd Singapore Poetry Contest Results

Announcing the top three winners of the 3rd Singapore Poetry Contest. Three powerful poems about home.

PoetryJee KohJuly 9, 2017The Singapore Poetry Contest, Sylvia Anne Telfer, Giovanni Santalucia, Meera Chandramouliswaran Comment

Erratic as Thoughts

Erratic as Thoughts

"Erratic as Thoughts: Goh Poh Seng’s Lines from Batu Ferringhi," an essay by Jee Leong Koh

Essay, PoetryJee KohJuly 4, 2017Goh Poh Seng, Edwin Thumboo, Lee Tzu Pheng, Yong Shu Hoong, Arthur Yap, W. B. Yeats, Aaron Lee Comment

Special Focus - The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap (Part 3)

Special Focus - The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap (Part 3)

"The Leeds Poems of Arthur Yap," an essay by Andrew Howdle.

Essay, PoetryJee KohJune 29, 2017Arthur Yap, Boey Kim Cheng, Cyril Wong, Andrew Howdle, Thom Gunn, Larry GraysonComment

Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 2)

Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 2)

Six more poems set in Leeds, UK, by the Singapore writer and painter Arthur Yap

PoetryJee KohJune 27, 2017Arthur Yap, NUS Press, Special FocusComment

Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 1)

Special Focus on Arthur Yap - The Leeds Poems (Part 1)

Six poems set in Leeds, UK, by the Singapore writer and painter Arthur Yap

PoetryJee KohJune 23, 2017Arthur Yap, NUS PressComment