現有書籍

MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS
by Grace Chia
published by Math Paper Press

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Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and the meaning of life by examining domestic psychodrama, childhood innocence, gendered rebellion and the intimate dynamics of love, desire and loss. In Chia's lyrical and elegiac poetry, she makes putty of the female body's vast and richly textured landscape to mould stories of sentiment and the sensuous into callused and tender truths.

WE R FAMILY
edited by Grace Chia
published by Math Paper Press

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Families come packaged in all shapes and sizes. At the heart of every family unit is love — or what passes off as love. 

A father and son bond over a loss — with wool. A myopic daughter sees her parents clearly for the first time. Two mental patients learn to coexist under the same roof. An American biracial dad finds moorings with his African adoptee. And a Kiwi mum in a mixed family grows roots in multicultural Singapore.

An anthology of eight unforgettable tales, We R Family celebrates the family in its colourful diversity from the whispers of homes in nameless cities to the metropolises of SIngapore, New York, Mumbai and Addis Ababa to the suburbs of Indiana and Connecticut. 

UNMARKED TREASURE
by Cyril Wong
published by Math Paper Press

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A ghost steps out of its body after a suicide and looks back at it in wonder. The poet wonders at his own existence and struggles between actual living and a desire to depart. Recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize, this collection is Cyril Wong’s most personal sequence of poems, held together by memories about family life and intimate relationships, these moments charged with the pain of love, dreams and death and an unflinching exploration of the self.

'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE (3RD PRINTING)
by Melissa De Silva
published by Math Paper Press
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What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore?

While having existed in Singapore as long as any other community, Eurasians, who comprise less than one percent of the population, still remain a fairly obscure group to many Singaporeans.

'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE is a tapestry that weaves together the multiple genres of narrative fiction, creative nonfiction, literary food writing and family memoir, to offer insight into the micro-minority Eurasian community through the intensely personal lens of the writer's own experience living and growing up as a Eurasian in Singapore. Throughout are interwoven the themes of memory, loss, language, identity and cultural reclamation.

Similarly, it is a reflective and provocative journey of self-discovery; a journey the reader may also take to explore what it means to exist at the confluence of being Singaporean and being Eurasian, and to interrogate the liminal space between two cultures, Asian and European, occupied by this community

簡介

《消滅眾神》是孤星子最新的詩集，精心挑選出32首令你熱血沸騰，想開始質問生活的衝動。他的語言剛直、樸實，生猛地將生活的各橫切面擺在你的眼前；而反對那些濫用語言藻飾空洞內容，胡謅吟詠卻理直氣壯的作品。孤星子擁有一把嘹亮的聲音，希望將詩帶到充滿人眼的地方。他不斷鼓勵年輕人向文學靠過來，更為新一代的新華文學創作者開闢了另一種想像。

作者簡介

新加坡新生代寫作人。生於1987年，新加坡南洋理工大學中文系榮譽學士，現為教育工作者。 2012年創辦新文潮文學社與主編文學雜誌《WhyNot 不為什麼》。創作形式多元，作品多見於新馬、中港台等地報刊。著有《喧囂過後》（2014）與《消滅眾神》（2016），主編《一首詩的時間2015》等。積極推動文學文化活動，希望將文學帶到更有人煙的地方。

城市空間，是思考的墳墓，欲望的叢林；沈溺與喧囂，孤獨與激情都埋藏在這裏；這一片我們深深眷戀的人世。

柯思仁：「一個青年詩人的成長歷程，生活細節編織而成的城市景觀，以詩的創意醞釀而成的反諷，以詩的語言鋪展出來的批判。」

梁文福：「喜歡這些詩所展現的『初心』。那種充沛的元氣和躍躍欲試的才情，可能是將來詩藝成熟後回不來的。」

周德成：「與來昇的詩相遇，但見首首詩以輕輕張揚的速度，流落人間成流星隕石，在詩集中安靜躺成悲喜。」

——孤星子《喧囂過後》（新加坡：赤道風，2014）。

2015年6月份，新文潮文學社在臉書上舉辦了 「一首詩的時間」網絡寫詩活動。「一首詩2015」的編委連續30天，每天準時於凌晨貼上一個主題（與加分題），讓詩人按照主題創作一首詩。這本詩集結集收錄了詩人對主題的回應，顯示了新加坡新一代以華文創作的詩人的作品，其不僅自由而恣意，也展現出眾聲喧嘩的特色。

——孤星子主编《一首詩的時間 2015》（新加坡：Ethos Books，2016）。

承接 2015 年 6 月的「一首詩的時間」計劃，新文潮文學社於 2016 年 7 月，再次舉辦了三十日的寫詩活動。這是一個讓民眾發表詩、閱讀詩及進行交流的平台。活動的主題是「生活的每個角落都有詩」，試圖捕捉生活中的詩意，探究空間、身體、慾望、語言、體制與社會，從生活的方方面面切入。詩人可按照指定主題、形式或藝術手法進行寫作。其中除了包括以分行或分段文字為主的詩，也包括了圖像詩。

——陳文慧主編《一首詩的時間：第二緝》（新加坡：Ethos Books，2017）。

《不可預期》是對於過往的敬意，現在的奮鬥，以及未來的期待。半個世紀，五十首精選，時長兩年的整理、梳理，解構又重新建構下，清晰譜出現代詩歌的本土傳統與承繼。欲興文學，詩必先鋒，詩人敏銳的洞悉與感知能力，往往為生活環境印刻下「當下」的見證，不僅讓後者有跡可尋，亦讓不同的「當下」在輪迴中找到知音。五十首充滿前瞻性、趣味性的作品，有意開闢讀者對於新華詩作的新想像，並將閱讀的心帶回到最初的悸動與感動。

——孤星子、洪均榮、陳文慧主編《不可預期——詩精50首》（新加坡：Ethos Books，2018）。