詩

　　《給自己和孤獨的星球》是語凡第9本詩集，曾用《淺談給自己和孤獨的星球》之名入圍台灣週夢蝶詩獎並與第三名得獎者同分。詩集寫給這顆受傷累累的藍色星球和住在上面一個個孤獨的人和靈魂，有很多詩篇以極短的篇幅來探索人生，有時也僅僅是詩人的一點問句和感悟。

作者簡介

　　語凡，原名曾國平，新加坡文藝協會副會長，《新加坡文藝報》主編，曾經出版詩集《逝去的羽光》、《草地裡的男生》、《旅行的困境》、《我們不知道的歸類》、《你的名字是甜》、《黑色城市》、《查無此人》、《厚·重》、《給自己和孤獨的星球》，散文詩集《語凡散文詩選》，散文集《致陌生人》。曾經獲得新加坡文學獎、方修文學獎、台灣詩學創作獎散文詩佳作獎、台灣現代詩五週年詩獎正獎、第一屆台灣人間魚金像獎與時報文學獎新詩獎。詩文發表在新加坡，台灣，香港，印尼，中國等。

　　詩集分〈厚〉與〈重〉。〈厚〉收錄靜物（對物的書寫），閒情（情為何物），詩人（與詩人對話），地景（地景詩寫），島國（書寫新加坡），茶詩（以茶入詩）。〈重〉收錄了時間的故事（書寫時光），戀人與初戀（戀愛之惦記），人的自畫像（詩人的自述），活物質活物（眾生相），近處與遠方（旅行至遠方）。想一本詩集收錄如此多主題，真是不自量力，但也希望讀者看在如此努力用心的份上，拍掌鼓勵一二。

作者簡介

　　語凡，原名曾國平，新加坡文藝協會副會長，《新加坡文藝報》主編，曾經出版詩集《逝去的羽光》、《草地裡的男生》、《旅行的困境》、《我們不知道的歸類》、《你的名字是甜》、《黑色城市》、《查無此人》，散文詩集《語凡散文詩選》，曾經獲得新加坡文學獎，方修文學獎，台灣詩學創作獎散文詩佳作獎，台灣現代詩五週年詩獎正獎，第一屆台灣人間魚金像獎。詩文發表在新加坡，台灣，香港，印尼，中國等。

“The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees are turning orange with pain.” This collection emerges, squeaking and poorly oiled, from this rubbish heap we’ve all piled up. It revels in the transfixing beauty of this last age of man. These poems have dwelt too close to the nuclear waste facility. These poems have traversed through fields of madness for grains for truth. These poems attempt to wring the last dregs out of language. Anything but Human grasps for a poetry beyond our collective exhaustion.

About the Author

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, writer and literary critic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is A Book of Changes (2016). He is the co-editor of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. He was quoted in international media for his tabulation of similar texts in the plagiarism of the cookbook by Sharon Wee by Elizabeth Haigh. His poems won him the Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015, awarded by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

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.

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.

SATORI BLUES 
by Cyril Wong  
published by Math Paper Press

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Cyril Wong’s longest and only Zen-inspired poem to date, Satori Blues is a response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post-Buddhist philosophies. Composed as a stream of thought—at times epigrammatic, philosophical, fragmented, even exclamatory—the poem has been described by The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English as ‘a sustained meditation that recalls turn-of-the- century Geoffrey Hill in its intricately patterned probing.’

THE MONSTERS BETWEEN US
poems by Jason Wee
published by Math Paper Press

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In his debut poetry collection, Jason Wee returns to ‘1987’, the installation work he first introduced to art audiences at the first Singapore Biennale in 2006.

The monsters Wee renders are present creatures, some cruelly alive, each shadowed by a long tail of mastery and mortality. With interlocking sequences, Wee shifts from Grimm’s stories to the small frail species among us, arriving at the volume’s central sequence, “Unreliable Evidence”. Composed from newsprint, detainee reports, speech transcripts and redacted accounts, this bravura sequence is suffused with the songs of childhood and the anger of unaccounted injustices. We watch and listen to a voice come of age in a time of great superhero comics and romcom movies, pop music and primary schools.

"Engaging and thought-provoking... Wee presents a fresh  and ageless view of the bizarre and the mundane."

— Ovidia Yu

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.

　　《我狮城，我街道》系列以“街道与记忆”为主题，从文学视角描绘新加坡的城市肌理、人文地景与生活日常。两册作品共汇聚五十多位作家的诗与散文，串联语言、族群、空间与记忆，构筑出属于狮城的文学地图。

《我獅城，我街道》
　　本书收录新加坡三代、二十六位作家的原创作品，以诗歌与散文书写街道与地方的故事、记忆与生活。有书写大坡小坡的周维介、小印度学艺的黄子明、描绘黑街旧事的吴伟才、漫步耶礼峇路的潘正镭、回望死人街的何志良与林方伟、记录上班日常的蔡欣洵，以及虚构“登百灵坊”的杨薇薇等。
　　书中不仅是一场文学漫步，更是一份留给城市与读者的“记忆档案”。主编汪来昇于〈心之所向〉中回顾了编书缘起与传播历程——若繁体版是让狮城走向世界，简体版则是温柔地回归故土。

《我獅城，我街道２》
　　延续第一册的精神与热度，本书收录三十位作者的二十九篇散文，书写更宽广的时间与地理幅度，继续关注新加坡的地方故事与生活痕迹。
　　从中峇鲁一颗“铁球”的跨世记忆，到安德逊路、苏菲雅路与盛港的人文变迁；从新加坡河与安祥山的静谧步行，到加冷河畔的劳动与歌声；从“阿裕尼十楼”的半世纪风华，到勿洛北与高文的烟火气、武吉巴督的魔幻写实、裕廊西与实龙岗北的陶窑兴衰——每一篇都以文字留住生活的温度。

　　愿我们深深爱着的这片土地与日常，历久弥新，继续闪耀人文的光彩。

特别附赠：英译版选集 —— Streets & Places of Singapore 1 & 2: Works originally written in English
　　此小册精选两册中原以英文创作的作品，完整收录英文本，展现文学跨语言的对话与文化交流之美。

This booklet brings together the original English works from Streets & Places of Singapore Volumes 1 and 2. The two anthologies were envisioned as a way of mapping Singapore through literature—capturing how streets and places carry history, memory, and imagination. Published in Chinese, they highlight the city as seen through the lens of Chinese literary expression, while also embracing works that were first written in English and lovingly translated into Chinese.

About the Editor

Ang Lai Sheng (汪来昇, 1987–) is a Singaporean writer, translator, publisher, and columnist, and the Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of TrendLit Publishing. His works and essays have been published across Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. He is the author of the poetry collections After Commotion, The Void (2014) and Destroy All Gods (2016), and editor of anthologies including Never Before – 50 Essential Poems (2018), Streets & Places of Singapore (Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, 2025), and Impressions of Singapore (2023). He is also the Chinese-language translator of Anything but Human (2025) and The World May Say This, But I Believe That! (2025).

Beyond his publications, Ang champions emerging voices, fosters cross-cultural literary dialogue, and conducts workshops and talks for writers and educators. He has twice served as Writer-in-Residence for the Ministry of Education’s Chinese Language Elective Programme and was honoured with the 2023 NTU School of Humanities Alumni Award for his contributions to literature and publishing.

Authors

Alvin Pang／Daryl Lim Wei Jie／Shawn Hoo／Yeow Kai Chai／Yong Shu Hoong ／Yvonne Tham


Contents

Editor’s Forword

1.     Around the Lake I Go ◎ Yong Shu Hoong

2.     Hwi Yoh Trilling ◎ Shawn Hoo

3.     Katong ◎ Alvin Pang

4.     Kelip-kelip: An Entomologist’s Field Recording at Changi Village Circa 2007 ◎ Yeow Kai Chai

5.     My Kind of Town ◎ Daryl Lim Wei Jie

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Toa Payoh Lorong 8 ◎ Yvonne Tham

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ISBN: 978-981-94-4467-0
Publisher: TrendLit Publishing Private Limited
Published Date: October 2025
Suggest Classification: Creative Non-Fiction, Singapore Literature, Locative Writing
Email: contact@trendlitpublishing.com

內容簡介

　　這是一部書寫海的詩，從海出發有沙灘、船、魚海浪、島嶼、水手等意象的描寫。再從那裡衍生出更多的想像，有貓、有魚骨頭、有孩子、企鵝、人和城市。我們的一輩子和海有多少交集，請你在這本詩集耐心尋找。

作者簡介

　　語凡，原名曾國平，新加坡文藝協會副會長，《新加坡文藝報》主編，已出版9本詩集、1本散文詩集、1本散文集，曾獲得新加坡文學獎（詩）、方修文學獎（詩）、金筆獎（短篇小說）、《源》雜誌2023年優秀文學作品（短篇小說）獎、台灣時報文學獎（詩）、台灣現代詩五週年詩獎正獎、第二屆陳讚一博士世界華文微型小說創作獎、全球華文文學星雲獎等。

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