Welcome to the most explosive book launch of 2020! With COVID-19, some of the most promising books we were looking forward to fell through the cracks instead of soaring to the skies. Join us as we put the spotlight on 5 great titles: Crazy Little Pyromaniacs, Hold The Line, No Cinderella?, Moving House and The Orchid Folios.
Crazy Little Pyromaniacs brings together 35 yet-unpublished Singapore poets who are 35 years-old and younger to plot future trajectories for Singapore and chart the course of Singapore writing. The anthology stands as a checkpoint of poetry that is bubbling just beneath the surface, waiting to burst free.
In Hold the Line (An Essay on Poetry) between France and Singapore, Pierre Vinclair investigates the different forms and functions of verse in French poetry from 1850 until now. Reading it is an expansive excursion into the variety of ways in which French poets use the line in poetry.
No Cinderella? Is the first volume of published poetry composed by a female domestic worker working in Singapore. Rolinda Espanola, in this unprecedentedly generous collection of poems, explores a variety of subjects, experiences and issues, including the ups, downs and unfairnesses undergone by a female migrant worker in the first world city-state. Rolinda’s accomplished, stirring, haunting and moving poems give us for the first time a sustained glimpse into the outer and inner hitherto hidden often very solidarity worlds of female domestic workers in Singapore.
Theophilus Kwek's first UK collection Moving House is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that become history. The poems set out from formative moments in the poet's memory, to pivotal moments in the colonial past of Southeast Asia, and finally the political upheavals of the present. Hospitality, precarity, migration – these are some of the themes that recur as the poet makes his own journey from Singapore to Europe and back again.
A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. A poetry collection and documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the Vanda Miss Joaquim as a living, breathing document of history, one that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological.
VENUE: Sing Lit Station (Facebook Page)
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DATE AND TIME
20 Dec 2020, 3pm–5pm