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// One to the Dark Tower Comes

// Yeow Kai Chai

// ISBN: 978-981-14-5182-9

// SGD $35.00


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// The book title One To The Dark Tower Comes alludes to Robert Browning’s 1855 poem ‘Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came’.


This collection can be seen as one half of a diptych together with the 2006 collection Pretend I’m Not Here, but can also be read by itself.



// 海马体


听说芒克与多多约好交换诗稿,芒克

还说: 犹如在决斗前与对手交换手枪。


决斗前与对手交换手枪 ── 想象带来草莽与况味,

诞生了《海马体》。


“海马体” 是头脑器官,左右各 一,彼此成对,发挥

记忆与定位的功能。


诗人们以此意象开启喻象,推峰塑岭,挥斥方遒。


在记忆倾斜的30度,听到水深千丈有声响。

孩子昨天是泥巴/今天是雨树

大航海时代,看过郑和的剑,传教士的鞋。

大水后/可能说明/我们存在/的碎屑:的/了/是。


你知道:最后一匹海马要突围了。 《海马体》是他们

切进风中的摩托,期望遭遇一个更强大的存在。



// 海马体

// 游以飘, 黄广青

// ISBN: 978-981-14-3941-4

// SGD $35.00



// random walk


I see this collection from poet Madeleine Lee, as love poems by a sensitive and perceptive nature lover that will, in a different but
equally important way, promote the appreciation, study, enjoyment and conservation of our natural heritage.


My hope is that, like us, future generations will also be able to enjoy both these poems and the nature that inspired them.


- Dr Geh Min

Past President, Nature Society Singapore Director, Bird Life International (Asia)


As a biologist I find satisfaction and a kind of beauty in discovering how nature works. As someone who loves nature, the exquisiteness of shapes, structures, colours and behaviours of plants and animals are indescribable. The poems in this collection reminded me of the aesthetic beauty in nature, and much more.


- Dr Shawn Lum

President, Nature Society Singapore
Council Member(Asia), Bird Life International


I am sometimes called an “eco-poet”. In truth, I simply write from a place of awe when I observe the natural world around me. This volume is written by someone blown away by the beauty, the order, the messiness, the chaos and the ironies in nature.


This latest eleventh volume is the literary result of a residency with The Nature Society Singapore and Bird Life International.


- madeleine lee

// random walk

// madeleine lee


// ISBN: 978-981-18-2954-3

// SGD $36.00





// impermanence

// madeleine lee

// ISBN: 978-981-18-6638-8

// SGD $53.00


// impermanence, poems 2003 - 2022 culls from madeleine lee's previous poetry collections, spanning two decades of literary venture; a single headlamp, fiftythree/zero three, y grec, synaesthesia, pantone 125, one point six one eight, flinging the triplets, square root of time, the size of azuki beans, regarding random walk




the volume concludes with a body of new work, and continues the poet's unjaded inward gaze into our quotidian abyss.



// how to build a lux hotel


“The pleasure of being a fly in the room,” so rhapsodises Madeleine Lee in how to build a lux hotel, a breezy, lyrical contemplation borne out of
her Writer-In-Residence stint at Raffles Hotel Singapore. And so, the poet, with her trusting, observant eye, has drawn a sensual portraiture
of the institution, itself already famous but invoked here in all its quirks and quiddities. That’s where the beauty emanates from, attuned to the “quiet purring / of a robo-mower” as well as the comical sight of “mynahs dutifully / marching up and down / in their morning shift.” Much love, humour and empathy reside in this series of miniature tableaux where living and non-living things, great and small, are juxtaposed and played off one another. At its most radiant, the residence comes alive, a rich haven for serendipitous connections. Everyone is welcome to stay, or just walk through, at home in an alignment of man and nature, architecture and imagination.

// how to build a lux hotel

// madeleine lee


// ISBN: 978-981-18-7415-4

// SGD $35.00

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it has won critical acclaim as a literary press since then. in 2006 two of its poets Cyril Wong and Yong Shu Hoong were awarded the Singapore Literature Prize. in 2008 the prize went to Ng Yi‐Sheng, another firstfruits poet.


in 2016, Tan Jiu Peow’s 《航海纪事》was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize. Yow Chuen Hoe’s《流线》was selected by Lian He Zao Bao in 2016 as one of the seven best books published for that year. both of them are also firstfruits poets.


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