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Food Republic is a generous serving of Singapore's food culture: from the making and eating of food, to the sale and hawking of it, our love and hate of it, and the effects of its consumption and deprivation.

Food has always been our safe space, our comfort zone: a place where we could freely engage in heated arguments about the best nasi lemak, the most fragrant cendol and whether the standard of the stall has dropped or not. Yet this anthology, featuring more than one hundred literary explorations of our food and food culture, also shows that when people write about food, they often aren't just talking about food but usually about something else, closer to the heart. Or the bone.

Curated from previously published work and selections from an open call, the poems, fiction and non-fiction in Food Republic range from the passionately realised to tantalisingly surreal. Think of it as a buffet, a banquet, an omakase, a smorgasbord, a nasi padang spread, a thali or a rijssttafel – we hope we've assembled one to your taste. Come. Eat.

Some Contributors: Arthur Yap, Leong Liew Geok, Edwin Thumboo, Toh Hsien Min, Wong Phui Nam, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Koh Jee Leong, Lee Tzu Pheng, Joshua Ip, Margaret Leong, Alvin Pang, Catherine Lim, Ng Yi-Sheng, Amanda Lee Koe, Alfian Sa'at, Wong May, Gopal Baratham, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Yong Shu Hoong, Aaron Maniam, Hamid Roslan, Daren Shiau, Boey Kim Cheng, Theophilus Kwek, Cyril Wong and Jennifer Anne Champion

Change is what happens to everything: history is humanity's attempt to make sense of this inevitability. In his debut collection of poetry, Daryl Lim Wei Jie paints minute strokes that give way to panoramas, strewn with unusual asides: migrants crossing oceans; an ancient king reclaiming a throne; rivers clogged with corpses; the paperwork for an invasion; a milo dinosaur the height of Mount Everest. A Book of Changes is a young poet's attempt to make sense of the impossible ebb and flow of time.

In 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six years moving from house to house and living hand-to- mouth; at first with her lover, and then alone.

And The Walls Come Crumbling Down parallels three events in the author’s life: the physical deterioration of the house in which she lives, the emotional disintegration of a couple once in love, and the unearthing of childhood ghosts that can’t seem to be cast off. Part memoir and part poetic rumination, it is an ode to love, loss and the people and places we call home.

A Luxury: Omnibus Edition is simultaneously a time capsule and a time-machine. The first volume, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, bottled the lightning of poetry, prose and plays in 2015. The second, A Luxury We Must Afford, took a leap forward into the unknown future of Singapore. You will find something to please and pique every reader in this anthology.

內容簡介

　　劉再復在《紅樓夢語》曾描述作家各自有寫作目的由為深刻，而他則認為：「最高境界的寫作，是為了消失——為了給生命的消失留下一聲感慨，一份見證，一曲歌哭，一種紀念。」

　　平凡的人，也各有著與別不同的人生經歷，那些是獨特的，是源於蘊藏在活生生的事蹟裏，都值得一記。這十一篇文集得以面世，全賴對我生命有影響的人，推動儲存在我腦海裏的意念，釋放潛藏的人物，將之活現於字裏行間當中，那些包括了我在美國生活上的點滴、特殊經歷、身邊人物、故事及遊歷等等。

作者簡介

　　荷悅，在香港接受大學教育，主修翻譯，獲文學學士。其後曾往美國工作及深造多年。喜愛寫作、書法、繪畫及到各地遊歷，有參與繪畫及書法展覽。早年創作僅傳閱於朋輩之間，後獲鼓勵出書作永久留念。

　　住在城市裡，有過為它寫下什麼的衝動嗎？對它麻木了，還是依舊充滿希望？作為一個城市人，作者寫下他的寂寞和叛逆，寫下自己的貪婪，疑惑，荒謬和挫折。當然也從那裡找到小確幸，幸福，安逸，快樂和愛。有些詩句是黑色的，有些是白色的，還有一些在灰色地帶。這是語凡第6本詩集，曾獲得台灣周夢蝶詩獎入圍決選。