Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (b. 1971)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
2011 – Changeling in the Boustrophedon’s Outfield. Chapbook. USA: White Knuckle Press.
2011 – Between Pineapple and Parsley. Chapbook. UK: Ronin Press.
2012 – 500 Favourite Words. Chapbook. USA: Naissance.
2013 – The Arbitrary Sign. Singapore: Red Wheelbarrow Books.
2014 – I Didn’t Know Mani was a Conceptualist. Singapore: Math Paper Press.
2014 – Sanctus Sanctus Dirgha Sanctus. Singapore: Red Wheelbarrow Books.
2015 – The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2015 – Phat Planet Cometh. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2016 – Thirty-Seven Reasons Red Is Rad. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2016 – Mirror Image Mirage. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2017 – Reading to Ted Hesburgh. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2017 – Apophenia. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
Fiction
2010 – Dear Physical Environment. Chapbook. USA: Naissance.
2010 – To Whose Mandolin It May Concern. Chapbook. USA: Naissance.
2011 – In Memoriam to a Marionette: Caudate Sonnet of the Year Ad Interim. Chapbook. UK: Silkworms Ink.
2011 – Let Dinggedicht Speak. Chapbook. UK: Silkworms Ink.
2014 – Singular Acts of Endearment: a novel. USA: Grey Sparrow Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2019 – The Good Day I Died: The Near-Death Experience of a Harvard Divinity Student. Singapore: Penguin Random House Southeast Asia.
Non-fiction
1995 – Top Ten TCS Stars. Singapore: Caldecott Publishing.
Hybrid Work
2010 – This Is Visual Poetry. Chapbook. USA: Naissance.
2012 – When Dada Rewrote Koans. Chapbook. USA: Corollary Press.
2015 – Babel Via Negativa. Singapore: Ethos Books & Squircle Line Press.
2016 – FOODPORN cum Maundy Thursday. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2017 – Jia Lat Lah: An Antiplay. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2018 – Hermitage of Dreamers: Lyric Essays. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2018 – The World According to Ms Erasure: Exercises in Zen Lyric. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
Photobook
2003 – Ruminations of a Good Book. Chapbook. Photos. Yasin Razak. Singapore: Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Audiobook / CD
2003 – How to Read a Poem. Exec Prod. Frenz, Jurgen and Desmond Kon. Singapore: Ngee Ann Polytechnic
2003 – An Impression of the Pipa. Exec Prod. Frenz, Jurgen, Desmond Kon and Samuel Wong Shengmiao. Singapore: Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
2004 – One for the Love of God. Exec Prod. Fernandez, Vanessa and Terry Lee. Eds. Desmond Kon and Germaine Lim. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Editorial
2002 – Doing A Little Good. Singapore: Riding for the Disabled Association.
2003 – Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover aka Dead People, Flying Fishes And The Ones Who Missed The Boat. Eds. Bik, Kelvin and Desmond Kon. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
2003 – Impressions of a Pipa Player: Profiles of the World’s Most Premier. Samuel Wong Shengmiao. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
2004 – For the Love of God. Eds. Maryam Abdullah, Ivan Ke, Jason Koh, Desmond Kon, Andrea Lau, Noelle Perera, Lisa Tan, Valerie Wee and Clair Yeo. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing.
2004 – I’m A Volunteer Too: Forty Heartwarming Singaporean Stories. Eds. Maryam Abdullah, Desmond Kon and Clair Marie Yeo. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing & National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre.
2004 – The One Word: Hope For Cambodia’s Challenges Today. Fang, Rachel, Amanda Koh and Kimberly Mah. Photos. Alan Lee. Singapore: Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
2014 – Eye/Feel/Write For You: Broadside Series. Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2015 – Eye/Feel/Write: Experiments in Ekphrasis. Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2015 – Ars Moriendi: Writings on the Art of Dying. Singapore: Lien Foundation & Squircle Line Press.
2017 – Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form. USA: Glass Lyre Press; Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2017 – Eye/Feel/Write: Building Architectonics. Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2018 – Anima Methodi: The Poetics of Mirroring. Eds. Desmond Kon and Eric Tinsay Valles. Singapore: Squircle Line Press.
2018 – SingPoWriMo 2018: The Anthology. Eds. Stephanie Chan, Desmond Kon, Ng Yi-Sheng and Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr. Singapore: Math Paper Press.
