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.
In this essay, writer, researcher and advocate Ada Cheong traces this dreaming across the emergence of “migrant poetry” in 2004, its rise in 2014–2017, its peak in 2018–2021, and seeming decline in the last few years. In doing so, she explores two key questions: What is “migrant” poetry? And what does migrant poetry do?
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.
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