Take a look through our current archive of more than 50 local poets.
poetry.sg is an educational / critical resource on all things Singaporean poetry, conceptualised and managed by a dedicated team of staffers and volunteers at Sing Lit Station. Launched in 2015 with support from the National Arts Council, poetry.sg is an online database of local poets that comes with an accompanying catalogue of biographies, samples of selected poetry, video recordings and critical essays written by academics and other local writers alike.
We have that many poets on this island. For our 100th profile, we’re honoured to spotlight the work of the late Lee Wen: a performance artist canonised for his Yellow Man series, but also a “punk poet”, as described by writer Ra Eebrahim. Learn more about him today.
In 2000, Marion Shoard theorised the landscape between city and country as deserving of its own geographic category: “edgelands”. Our latest feature, penned by editor Leonard Yip, is an attempt to make visible a nascent tradition of edgeland art in Singapore.
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