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.