Fiction

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the po...

Description "The cure for anything is salt water.Sweat, tears or the ocean." Isak Dinesen This is one of my favourite quotes, and it pretty muc...

Description About the Authors With increased global mobility of people, the phrase “go home” has been commonly used against those who are deeme...

Description About the Author parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poem...

Description About the Author Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as...

Description About the Author What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Shou...

Description Praise About the Author Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award 3,000 people go missing every year i...

Description “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,...

Description About the Author Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This tenth and final double-sized issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and abou...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore,...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Phili...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book This seventh issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Malaysia, Vi...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book Softblow poetry journal celebrates twelve years of publishing poetry in English, from...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This sixth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, Vietnam, I...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book This fifth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philip...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book This fourth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and abou...

Description Praises About the Editors   Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book This third issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Specu...

Description About the Poet OUT OF PRINT Look inside the book Winters Three opens a dialogue in which several voices and languages take part, an...

Description About the Poet OUT OF PRINT  Look inside the book Memorial Day is a reflection on loss and renewal in time of war. It tells the sto...

Description Praise Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: “We want our young to think independently, to explore with confidence, and to pursue their p...

Description About the Poet Look inside the book “This collection of poems represents for me the ideal of embracing life and living in the prese...

Description Praise About the Poet Look inside the book Selected by the National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences ...

Description Praise About the Poet Kirpal Singh is a poet, literary and cultural critic. An internationally recognised scholar, he was the first...

Description Praise About the Poet Look inside the book Robert Yeo is a poet, playwright, novelist and librettist. Regarded as a pioneer of Sing...

Description Praise About the Author Selected by The Straits Times as one of the Best Books of 2012 Look inside the book In poems that shuttle b...

Description About the Poet The fifth volume of poetry by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets carries in addition several hybrid pieces ...

Description About the Poet Gwee Li Sui once again shatters expectations from his verse with this gloriously macabre book. Death Wish distils al...

Description Food Republic is a generous serving of Singapore's food culture: from the making and eating of food, to the sale and hawking of it,...

Description About the Poet This volume could well be subtitled the social history of Singapore in 120 haiku. There are haiku about MRT breakdow...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description Praise About the Author Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territ...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description About the Author This is a book of poems by popular YouTube personality and Instragrammer Nicole Choo. With musings that range from...

Description About the Author This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's mos...

Description About the Poet From the poet’s Preface: When love ends, what do you keep? Some autumns ago, I met a remarkable woman and we fell in...

Description About the Poet Paul Tan’s fourth collection shuttles between two metropolises. In Tokyo, the new and the picturesque compete with t...

Description About the Poet From the author’s Introductory Note: “In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over i...

Description About the Poet This collection brings together in one volume, the author’s first four volumes of poetry which have long been out of...

Description About the Poet Does the word “childhood” call up mushy sentiments and nostalgic memories where time has given a rosy glow to what h...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Poet This is for you, All you bothersome people Who ask about my next book, Ask whether I still draw Or write anymore. Wh...

Description Praise About the Poet As the poet navigates through middle age, beset by questions on ageing, love and loss, and the incipient awar...

Description About the Poet It feels unkind to reveal a long-held secret of Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? published in 1988 – the published ...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Tamil, Poetry) இந்த கவிதைத் தொகுப்பு மிக அடர்த்தியான கருப்பொர...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Chinese, Poetry) 这是作者的第三本诗集，收入了作者自1996年来的六十多首诗，全书按照写作时间分成两辑，比...

Description Praise About the Editors The twin cinema, created by Singapore poet Yeow Kai Chai, is a rigid, yet spectacular poetic form that mix...