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Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate fully that are the marks of human life. “My poems,” says Wong May, “are about wordlessness rather than words. I feel that we must recognize our ultimate wordlessness.”

First published in the US in 1969, and reissued in Singapore 54 years later with a new forweword by Tse Hao Guang, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals continues to astound, intrigue, and endure.

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Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation.

Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century.

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Special issue of Minarets Journal with contemporary Singaporean poetry edited by Greg Kan and Hao Guang Tse featuring Hana Pera Aoake, essa may ranapiri, Emma Barnes, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Chris Tse, Frances Libeau, Ana Iti, Jackson Nieuwland, Yeow Kai Chai, Jack Xi, Hamid Roslan, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Andrew Kirkrose Devadason, Anna Onni, Ruth Tang.

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Singapore has always spoken in many tongues at once. We code-switch between Cantonese and Malay, hear Bangladeshi and German and Ilocano on the streets, feel the texture of Tamil or Hokkien or Arabic or Singlish as familiar even if we don’t speak it. One person may know three, four, seven languages at once. Our poetry is no different.

Any Anything Also Can is a broadside exhibition of multilingual poetry: an eight-poem taster showcasing the linguistic possibilities Singapore has given its writers. You’ll find weird poems and lyric poems; poems old and new, about place, about self, about loving words; songs; how meaning can go wrong; how to hold it together even if you might not understand it all.

The broadside is a public medium, meant to be read in the street, in communion with strangers. Artistically reimagined by Fellow Design and qu’est-ce que c’est design, Any Anything Also Can is a meeting point between Sing Lit Station's advocacy in the literary arts and the best minds in graphic design as practiced in Singapore today.

The exhibition also featured “bonus content” in the form of excerpts of ephermera, audio clips of poetry readings, translations and visual artefacts related to the selected poems, stored on a microsite and accessible to exhibition attendees via QR code.

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Manuscript Bootcamp is Sing Lit Station's intensive editorial programme that gathers writers, critics, literary academics and publishers together to critique and workshop a handful of the best manuscripts that Singaporean writers have to offer.

photo: Copyright Jon Gresham. All rights reserved.

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poetry.sg hopes to be the first online venue that people think of when they think of Singapore Poetry—be they scholars seeking critical analysis, teachers looking for rich multimedia resources to engage their students, or just a curious lit-lover wanting to find out more about a poet they came across.

We want to gather in one space the best local verse, arranged and critically examined by author. Beyond just text, we also hope that our video repository will give viewers insights into how poetry is read and performed, adding another dimension to the work.

We hope to increase the amount and quality of scholarship Singapore literature and poetry, in order to benefit both the general reader looking for a quick conceptual inroad to our poets, as well as teachers, scholars, and students.

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OF ZOOS is an electronic literary magazine by Singaporeans for Singaporeans, and everyone else. We publish poetry and its sub-branches, or poetically sensible art.

Read Lucía Damacela's interview with OF ZOOS.

Poems in OF ZOOS have won Honourable Mention, Third Place and First Place at the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry over the years. Two interviews with the editors can be found here.