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Missing Bull Haiku by Gwee Li Sui

 

My heart takes me out
for a walk. Freedom is where
one cannot be found.

Published in This Floating World (2021)

Born in 1970, Gwee Li Sui is a literary critic, a poet, and a graphic artist. His first book Myth of the Stone, written and drawn at the age of twenty-one, was Singapore’s first full-length graphic novel in English. Although it was met with critical silence back in 1993, it has returned in a popular, special, twentieth-anniversary edition published by Epigram Books in 2013. He also wrote a book of funny verse Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems?, which Landmark Books published in 1998, and his book of love poems One Thousand and One Nights was just released by the same publisher. A familiar name in Singapore’s literary scene, Gwee has written essays on a broad range of cultural subjects and is well-loved for his instruction in Singaporean literature and, in particular, Singaporean poetry. He is also the editor of Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II (2009), Telltale: Eleven Stories (2010), and Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore(2011), all published by Ethos Books.

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Poems on the MRT is an initiative by the National Arts Council, in partnership with SMRT and Stellar Ace. Produced by Sing Lit Station, a local literary non-profit organisation, this collaboration displays excerpts of Singapore poetry throughout SMRT’s train network, integrating local literature into the daily experience of commuters. Look out for poems in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil in trains on the East-West, North-South and Circle Lines, as well as videos created by local artists and featuring local poets in stations and on trains. The Chinese, Malay, and Tamil poems are available in both the original languages and English. To enjoy the full poems, commuters may read them on go.gov.sg/potm.

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