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Poetry
A selection of poetry from Singapore and abroad.
#07-38 by Kenneth Lam Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
(love song, with two goldfish) by Grace Chua Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
1:02am by Cyril Wong Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
13 Ways of Looking at a Durian by Chris Mooney Singh Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
538 by Thomas Lowe Taylor Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
A Conservationist's Tale by Kevin Simmonds Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
A Famosa (the gap) by D.J. Huppatz Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
A Half Orange by Aishwarya Iyer Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
A Lion, In Five Parts by Daren Shiau Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
A Malaysian Comes to Singapore by Irian Way Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
A Mirror in 12 Fragments by David Thian Wen Hao Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
A Myth of Origin by Jal Nicholl Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
A River by Jerome Kugan Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Adelaide by Yong Shu Hoong Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Adopted Son by Jason Wee Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
after arthur by Heng Siok Tian Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
After Meng Chiao II by Jim Goar Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Aftershave by Choo Shu Jian Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Amber Beacon by Vincent Lim Beta Issue
an exercise in gameability by Christopher Mulrooney Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
An Exercise of Faith by Adrianna Tan Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Another Night on the Patio by Ian Chung Weiqiang Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Arabesque by Tim Keane Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
At Six O'Clock by Peng-Ean Khoo Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
At the Airport by Mabel Lui Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
Aubade by Nicholas Liu Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
August Moon by Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Awakening by Jonathan Hayes Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Ayer Hitam by Wendy Gan Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Babysitting by Megan Ng Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Beach Sand by Linda Benninghoff Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Beethoven, Opus 92 by Zhang Ruihe Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Being two by Edlyn Ang Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
blue memories by Stephen Pain Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Boogie by Ng Yi-Sheng Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Buddhist Morning by Peter Cherney Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
But I will only remain as that one by Bianca Zen Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Canada by Joanne Leow Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Carry-On by Nicholas Wong Yoke Hin Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Chiang's Heat Stroke by Gilbert Koh Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
chiefs and no indians by Jan Oskar Hansen Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
children by Valentina Diana Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
China Doll by Angeline Ang Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Clemency by Terry Jaensch Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
Climbing Blue Canyon by Allan Johnston Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Concealed Exit Ahead by Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Confessional by Edlyn Ang Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Construction by Gilbert Koh Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Conveyancing Definition X by Daniel Andersson Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Countdown by Grace Chua Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Crickets by Davide Trame Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Day Job of the Poet by Brandon Lee Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Dear Poem by Cyril Wong Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Dutch Disease by Peng-Ean Khoo Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Elegy by John Tranter Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Euterpe by Low Lai Chow Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Fair Youth by Arthur Yap Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Family Photos by Wendy Gan Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
fault lines by Richard Hillman Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
February by Ng Shing Yi Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Floor Tiling by Koh Jee Leong Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
For A Gymnopedie By Satie by Oswald LeWinter Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Forgetting How To Swim by Joanne Leow Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
From Deadly Pollen by Stephen Oliver Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
From Occupations by Stephen Oliver Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Garden City by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
generation by Edlyn Ang Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Good Etiquette by Gabriel Ra Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
Grandmother, The Bride by Karen Low Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Greek Lunch by Jan Oskar Hansen Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Guardian Angel by Cyril Wong Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Heat by Allison Lee Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Here is nothing by Rachel Curzon Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Here Russia spreads her legs like the body compass of a prima ballerina by Ronny Someck Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
His Body by Trina Nileena Banerjee Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Histories by Avik Chanda Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Home by Carol Chan Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Home Purchase by Koh Jee Leong Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Hors duh by Peter Loh Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
How It Begins by Jerome Kugan Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
hurtling by Stephanie Ye Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
I miss you to the touch by Eliana Debora Langiu Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
ICU by Grace Chua Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Images of America by Alvin Pang Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Immense by Low Ying Ping Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
In Memory of Gu Cheng's Kingdom of Daughters by Bridget-Rose Lee Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
In-between Language by Lincoln O`Neill Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Incendium Amoris by Alvin Pang Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
Instructions From A Serial Killer by Felix Cheong Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Intermissions by Ma Shaoling Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Interpretation by Tania De Rozario Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Interrogation by Cyril Wong Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Just by Corey Mesler Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
knowing gods by Madeleine Marie Slavick Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Kopitiam by Lau Peet Meng Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Lamu By Night by Stephen Derwent Partington Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Lapland by Stephen Pain Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Late Train by Zhuang Yisa Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
Lawdy by Vernyce Dannells Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Lazarus Ascending by Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Let Me Love You by Tsjeng Zhi Ying Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Letter From Home by Grace Chua Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Listen by Joe Liew Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Lust by Azrul Hisham Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Mandarin by Kevin Simmonds Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Maps by Sharlene Teo Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
market forces by Goh Peng Fong Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Matching Talismans by Eric Low Soon Liang Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Memento Mori X by Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Mixed Shots by Arthur Yap Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
modes of transport by Shazanah Hassan Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Monsoon by Eugene Datta Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Monsters by Grace Chua Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Moonrise Over East Coast Beach by Koh Tsin Yen Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Morning by Eugene Datta Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Morning Skype by Wong Yunjie Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Mosquito Wars by Judith Huang Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Mountain Air by Jerome Kugan Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Mouth Piece by W.B. Keckler Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
My Father Growing Old by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
New Car by Daniel Yu Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Night Watch by Allen McGill Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Nighthawks by Bridget-Rose Lee Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Not Dad by Desiree Lim Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Old Folks Home by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
On Ocean Street, Carlsbad, California by Kirby Wright Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
On Offal by Arthur Yap Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
On Silence by Mark Pirie Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
On The Birth Of A Child by Lee Tse Mei Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
On the roof: a transparent moment by Michelle Lim Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
Other Things by Alvin Pang Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Palmistry by Gilbert Koh Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Parting by Felix Cheong Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Perfect On Her by Ken Lee Beta Issue
Permission To Write by Koh Tsin Yen Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Pharmakos by Sameera Siddiqe Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Picture the Children by Mani Rao Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Planting Mines by Thow Xin Wei Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Pleasure Ground by Airina Imran Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Poem in the Third Style by Michael Fessler Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Point of Expansion, i.e. An Island by Regina Derieva Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Post by Ng Shing Yi Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Potty by Eng Shou Jie Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Poultry by Bryan Thao Worra Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Providence Spring by Joanne Leow Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Quadratic Equation by Terry Teo Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Quarterly Report No. 2: Central City Waste Incinerator by Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Questions From A Young Monk by Musa Karim Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Quiet Virtuoso: Laurindo Almeida by Oscar Balajadia Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Rain by Gaston Ng Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
Return to Kuantan by Oswald LeWinter Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Rimutakas by Mark Pirie Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
Room by Thow Xin Wei Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Roshanara by Neha Sood Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Royal Jelly by Matt Smith Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Saturn by Ng Shing Yi Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Say, to Pennsylvania by Catherine Baab Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
Scar by Leon Shann Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
season in grey and white by Ken Lee Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
Second Day of Mourning by Gaston Ng Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
Seletar by Jeffery Lee Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
September by Angeline Yap Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Short-sighted look of a Galileo Galilei descendant by Tiziano Fratus Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
Six memories: four poems by Leonard Ng Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
Small Walls by Neha Sood Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
Sonnet by Aaron Lee Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002
Speaking For My Father by Jeremy Lim Mun Loong Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Strindberg for Lunch by Ron Riddell Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
Subtle Bridges by Yvonne Koh Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Sundials by Peter Cherney Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Superstition by Hugo Chaparro Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
Supper At Eight by Jan Oskar Hansen Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Suppositions by Ray Succre Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Sweetness and Light by Dominic Chua Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
The 32 Hells: A Sampler by Adam Aitken Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
The All-Night Attendant at the Foreign Experts' Compound by Charles Lowe Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003
The Arborification of Baucis and Philemon by Koh Tsin Yen Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
The Ark by Darran Anderson Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
the check-in counter lady speaks by Amos Toh Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007
The Clouds Build Mountains by Kirby Wright Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
The Couple by Musa Karim Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
The Couple Next Door by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
The Deluge by Keith Flynn Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
The Difficulty by Cyril Wong Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
The Embrace by Zhuang Yisa Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
The Famine, 1959-62 by Tammy Ho Lai-ming Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
the girl who could love you by Alvin Pang Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
the guys i work with don't got time for philosophy by Goh Peng Fong Beta Issue
The Hand-Rolled Leaves of Gunpowder Tea by Stephan B. Delbos Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
The Heron is a Kind Bird by Bridget-Rose Lee Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004
The House After Her Death by Amjad Nasser Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
The Latecomer by Ma Shaoling Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
The Leaving by Robert P. Craig Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
The New Babel by Leonard Schwartz Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
The New Bad Plumbing by Nicholas Liu Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005
The News by Joanne Leow Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
The Palimpsest of Exile by Dipika Mukherjee Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
The roots of everyday things are sunk deep by Brandon Lee Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
The Schoolgirl Kills Herself After Failing An Exam by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
The Song Still In Them by Neha Sood Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
The Storks of Algiers by Amari Hamadene Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
The Wall by Eugene Datta Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
The Wandering Eye by Dominic Chua Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001
The world after all by Andrea Bonnin Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
Their Daughters by Meena Kandasamy Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
This City Has No Bicycle Bells by Bridget-Rose Lee Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
three love objects by Teng Qian Xi Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
Three Poems on Lost In Translation by Ng Teng Kuan Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Three Women by Teng Qian Xi Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Tidal by Edlyn Ang Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004
Tokyo Stanzas by Stephen Pain Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002
Toolshed by Cheong Lee San Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Total Recall by Srinjay Chakravarti Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003
Train Ride to Singapore by Gilbert Koh Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002
Trainspotting by Lee Tse Mei Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
Translations from the Malay, 1930 by Adam Aitken Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
Turkey by Terry Teo Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
twenty not four by Debbie Yong Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Twins by Neha Sood Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Two Pacific Spaces by Kent MacCarter Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006
Unfinished Sketch of a Cargo Boat Under White Birds by Bernard Henrie Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
unresolved between a thai lad and I by Heng Kaile Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004
Visitors by Pat Galvin Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005
Wasps by Ed Higgins Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Watching My Grandmother Eat Fish by Joanne Leow Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002
We Live Here by Eric Low Soon Liang Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Welgone by Yeow Kai Chai Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
What are you, eighteen? by Koh Tsin Yen Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005
What Work Is Not by Koh Jee Leong Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003
When Words Fail by Andrea Lau Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004
Whispers by Bernard Henrie Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008
White by Koh Beng Liang Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
White Magic by Judith Huang Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008
Why Metal Complains by Eric Low Soon Liang Vol. 5 No. 4 Jul 2006
Why Writing Poetry is Like Writing the Gospel by Sid Gómez Hildawa Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006
Winter Evening, Northern Avenue by Arka Mukhopadhyay Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008
Words by Gan See Siong Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005
world cup / june 2006 by Melvin Look Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006
You make it easy to leave you by Wendy Gan Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003
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