Name: The Inventors ◎Daryl Li
Brand: Rosetta Cultures
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The Inventors ◎Daryl Li

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“An uncategorisable, unrelentingly gorgeous tour de force.”
- Michael Copperman, Writer

“Li’s hybrid essays hover elegantly over the field of memory.”
- Jonathan Chan, Poet

“This is the kind of failure we should all aspire to.”
- Tse Hao Guang, Poet

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About The Inventors

A history of embarrassments in the garden begins a meditation on the nature of memory. Unfolding alongside notes and marginalia, a ghost story becomes a reflection on grief, remembrance, and identity. Failed writing projects coalesce into a contemplation on the limits of our narratives. The haunting essays in The Inventors explore the stories that we tell ourselves—and the ways in which we constantly invent and reinvent our / selves.

About the Author

Daryl Li is a writer of literary fiction and nonfiction based in Singapore. His first book, The Inventors, is a collection of creative nonfiction published by Rosetta Cultures. His work has been longlisted for the Australian Book Review Calibre Essay Prize and Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and been a finalist in the Georgia Review Prose Prize. He has won a Golden Point Award for short fiction. His work can be found in publications including Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, NANG, OF ZOOS, Unwinnable Monthly, and Gastronomica.

He can be found on Instagram, Twitter, and Threads at @nonstickpanda.

About Rosetta Cultures

Rosetta Cultures is an imprint by TrendLit Publishing that focuses on championing and bridging languages and the arts across cultures and communities.

Rosetta Cultures is currently based in Singapore, serving local and international readers.

Publication Information

ISBN: 978-981-18-8244-9 (Paperback)
Publisher / Imprint: Rosetta Cultures
Date of Publication: 01 November 2023
Suggested Categorization: Essays, Non-Fiction, Singapore Literature
Format: 19cm (H) x 13cm (W), 272 pages

Rosetta Cultures 羅塞塔文化

Short Tongue 短舌 (Bilingual Edition)◎Wang Mun Kiat 黄文杰（Translated By: Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰）

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Short Tongue is the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat’s second collection of poetry, representing a distinct change in style from his previous work. The poems in this collection are deceptively short and seemingly simple, but they belie deep reservoirs of irony, wit and social commentary. The title, Short Tongue, hints at an ambiguity and a refusal to define oneself. You can think of each poem as a dagger — that both wounds and tickles. This bilingual edition is published in simplified Chinese and English, in hopes of bringing Wang Mun Kiat’s surprising poetry to a new audience of readers, as well as promoting exchanges between the different language literatures in Singapore.

《短舌》的黄文杰诗风转变之作，以精短凝练的文字，让读者拨云见月。顾名思义，“短舌”可指涉口齿不清、沟通障碍，无以自辩等，因此每首诗形成了它独一无二的逻辑，也变成近距离发射的飞刀——中刀时有点刺痛，却也能令人会心一笑。本次以简体华文与英文（双语对照版）出版，希望给更多的读者惊喜，以及拓展新加坡文学的多元可能与想象。

Author and Translator Bio

Wang Mun Kiat 黄文杰 (Author 作家)

Wang Mun Kiat is a Singaporean writer born in 1967. He is currently an engineer and lives in Bangkok, Thailand. Wang came into contact with poetry and writing in the 1980s. His works were mostly published in Singapore's literary journals and Lianhe Zaobao. Wang was awarded the Singapore Golden Point Award in 2013, and was shortlisted for the Singapore Literary Award in 2014. His poetry collection includes Not Yet Midnight and Short Tongue.

黄文杰，1967年生，新加坡人，现为工程师，于泰国曼谷定居。80年代开始接触诗歌创作，作品多见于新加坡文学杂志和《联合早报》副刊。 2013年获颁新加坡金笔奖，2014年入围新加坡文学奖。著有诗集《夜未央》与《短舌》。

Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 (Translator 译者)

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, translator and literary critic from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry is Anything but Human (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. His poetry won him the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2015. His work has been featured in POETRY Magazine, Poetry Daily, The Southwest Review and elsewhere.

林伟杰，是新加坡（英语）诗人、译者与文学评论者。最新诗集《Anything but Human》（除了人，2021）入选2022年新加坡文学奖；曾获2015年新加坡金笔奖（英文诗歌组）。作品刊登于《POETRY》（诗歌）杂志、《Poetry Daily》（诗歌日志），及《The Southwest Review》（西南评论季刊）等。

Publication Information 出版资料

ISBN 国际书号: 978-981-18-6965-5
Publisher 出版社: Rosetta Cultures | 罗塞塔文化
Date of Publication 出版日期: April 2023 | 2023年4月
Suggested Categorization 建议分类: Poetry, Comtemporary Literature, Translated Literature | 现代诗、当代文学、翻译文学
Format 规格：19cm (H) x 13cm (W)，144pages | 19厘米（高）x 13厘米（宽），144页

（Please note that the final cover of the collection might differ slightly from the cover shown. 预购封面仅提供参考，最终封面会有些许的调整或修正。）

What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)◎Alvin Pang

Rosetta Cultures 羅塞塔文化

What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)◎Alvin Pang

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The beloved Sing Lit classic What Gives Us Our Names is finally being revised and published with photos taken by the author worldwide. From the water town of Zhou Zhuang to the suburbs of Calcutta, the pictures will allow readers a peek into the writer’s travel and experiences. Coupled with the text of What Gives Us Our Names, it will give readers a new angle and perspective on the timeless classic.

About What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)

He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply, past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he wove them into his heart in the deep of night. He touched you once, borrowing pieces of your story in passing. They are here still, in case you wish to look.

About the Author

He has been known to edit, explore, curate, comment, photograph, perform, read, review, study, translate, travel, teach, dine, document, design, dream and adore cats. Generous spirits from many shores have feted his words in fellowships, feasts and festivities. Translators in over twenty languages have puzzled over his words. He once aspired to elusiveness, considering restlessness a virtue, and now accepts that life is brief, fluid and already unknowable. He has always needed glasses.

About Rosetta Cultures

Rosetta Cultures is an imprint by TrendLit Publishing that focuses on championing and bridging languages and the arts across cultures and communities.

Rosetta Cultures is currently based in Singapore, serving local and international readers.

Publication Information

ISBN: 978-981-18-6986-0 (Paperback)
Publisher / Imprint: Rosetta Cultures
Date of Publication: 1 May 2024
Suggested Categorization: Creative Prose, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature
Format: 19cm (H) x 13cm (W), 96 pages

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This Is How We Come Back◎Cyril Wong

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About This Is How We Come Back

One of a pair of lovers slices off his nipple on a dare. Both argue about enlightenment before it becomes too late, after retreating from the hostile world into a cave of wildly carnal fulfilment. Marrying mystical exploration and avant-garde homo-erotica, here is a prose-poem-as-fairy-tale in the modern day about the things few of us in love may see, insights about love and loss which pierce the amnesia of ordinary time.

About Cyril Wong

Cyril Wong is a poet whose works “embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds” (TIME magazine, 28 Nov. 2007). His books include Beachlight (Seagull Books, 2023) and This Side of Heaven (Epigram Books, 2020). A two-time recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize (2006 and 2016) and the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature (2005), he completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His work was featured in Poems on the Underground in London (2022). His writings have appeared in journals like Poetry International, Poetry New Zealand, Ambit, Atlanta Review, as well as in anthologies by W. W. Norton and Everyman’s Library.

About Rosetta Cultures

Rosetta Cultures is an imprint by TrendLit Publishing that focuses on championing and bridging languages and the arts across cultures and communities.

Rosetta Cultures is currently based in Singapore, serving local and international readers.

Publication Information

ISBN: 978-981-18-8274-6 (Paperback)
CIP: Available with National Libarary Board, Singapore
Publisher / Imprint: Rosetta Cultures
Date of Publication: December 2024
Suggested Categorization: Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature
Format: 19cm (H) x 13cm (W), 68 pages

What Gives Us Our Names (Box Set: Book + Poster + Fragrance)◎Alvin Pang

Rosetta Cultures 羅塞塔文化

What Gives Us Our Names (Box Set: Book + Poster + Fragrance)◎Alvin Pang

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*Deluxe Box Set / Perfumes are only available for order within Singapore.*

The beloved Sing Lit classic What Gives Us Our Names is finally being revised and published with photos taken by the author worldwide. From the water town of Zhou Zhuang to the suburbs of Calcutta, the pictures will allow readers a peek into the writer’s travel and experiences. Coupled with the text of What Gives Us Our Names, it will give readers a new angle and perspective on the timeless classic.

To commemorate the (re)launch of the classic, Rosetta Cultures will also be launching a limited-edition box set which contains the book, posters as well as a unique fragrance (Memories of Kumano) inspired by the book.

About What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)

He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply, past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he wove them into his heart in the deep of night. He touched you once, borrowing pieces of your story in passing. They are here still, in case you wish to look.

About the Author

He has been known to edit, explore, curate, comment, photograph, perform, read, review, study, translate, travel, teach, dine, document, design, dream and adore cats. Generous spirits from many shores have feted his words in fellowships, feasts and festivities. Translators in over twenty languages have puzzled over his words. He once aspired to elusiveness, considering restlessness a virtue, and now accepts that life is brief, fluid and already unknowable. He has always needed glasses.

About Rosetta Cultures

Rosetta Cultures is an imprint by TrendLit Publishing that focuses on championing and bridging languages and the arts across cultures and communities.

Rosetta Cultures is currently based in Singapore, serving local and international readers.

Publication Information

ISBN: 978-981-18-6986-0 (Paperback)
Publisher / Imprint: Rosetta Cultures
Date of Publication: 1 May 2024
Suggested Categorization: Creative Prose, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature
Format: 19cm (H) x 13cm (W), 96 pages

Rosetta Cultures 羅塞塔文化

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