Goh Poh Seng (1936–2010)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Vietnam

• from "Lines From Batu Ferringhi"

• Bird With One Wing

• Lately, The Going's Hard

5. DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY: “For the body when it behaves as a conflicted technocrat”

SELECTED POEMS

Lately, The Going's Hard

Lately, the going’s hard.
Each daybreak
the mountains
do not re-deploy themselves
into fresh landscapes,
nor each day itself
appreciated
for its novelty.
If they do,
they may be part of
a solution.

by Goh Poh Seng
from As Though the Gods Love Us (2000)

DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY: “For the body when it behaves as a conflicted technocrat” >