Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and translator of poems and essays. He is the author of the poetry collections going home (Landmark, 2022) and bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He serves as the Managing Editor of poetry.sg and reads poetry and creative nonfiction for The Plentitudes and PR&TA.

• Criticism : Assuredly Californian and Land-bound
• Criticism : Cut and press
• Criticism : All the space in the world
• Criticism : Union and Separation, and the Crow’s Bumpy Flight
• Criticism : A springtime of witness and courage
• Criticism : The Confessional: Familiarity and Defamiliarisation
• Criticism : Poetry as a necessary art of posterity
• Criticism : Different Shades of the Colour Brown
• Criticism : Shaping a Critical Disability Studies for Singapore
• Criticism : Global Asia: New Pathways for Singapore Studies
• Criticism : Poetry and artmaking out of the ordinary
• Criticism : Staring deep into the ink pond
• Criticism : Loss and Discovery: The Important Reconstruction of Mervin Mirapuri’s Last Work
• Criticism : Fertile Birthsoil: A Translation That Binds
• Essays : Britain’s National Anxiety and the Far East in the Early 18th Century
• Essays : On representation
• Essays : Of O’Hara and Williams and Olson
• Essays : Cultural memory and war in the poetry of Theresa Cha and Ocean Vuong
• Poetry : prayer (xxi)
• Poetry : sound and colour
• Poetry : at the ball game
• Poetry : love and terror
• Poetry : a day of small sadnesses
• Poetry : bare sweetness
• Poetry : art therapy
• Poetry : eternity
• Poetry : all i ask
• Poetry : ash wednesday, riding downward

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