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• 初版售罄，讀者迴響催生簡體版——《我獅城，我街道》繁體版問世以來，廣受許多讀者支持與關注。本書以散文、詩歌梳理新加坡的前世與今生，串聯起語言、族群、空間與記憶，構築了一條條既私密又公共的敘述路徑。初版已於發行後迅速售罄。簡體版既是為了回應讀者的閱讀需求，也希望藉此讓獅城的街道與地方故事，在更廣泛的語境中延續與傳播。
  
  
• 寫在街道之後——簡體再版，並非終點，而是一種重新走入記憶中街道的方法。除保留原貌外，簡體版新增主編跋文。主編在總結初版迴響的同時，也給未來留下一點餘白，這不是結束，而是一種「整理與繼續」，畢竟還有更多的路口等待我們轉身。
  
  
• 回顧三代作家的書寫軌跡，他們以詩與散文描摹「我」的新加坡經驗。
  
  
• 甘榜、組屋、巷弄、集市、商場……這些不僅是地理名詞，更是日常生活中的感官觸點與情感座標。在語言切換與身分交會的背景下，作者們以個體經驗回應歷史轉折，用回憶描繪一幅幅已消失或正在消逝的地景。這些文字，不只是私人敘述，更是一座城市如何被感知、被想像、被理解的方式。

內容簡介

　　《我獅城，我街道》是一本關心新加坡街道與地方「故事」、「記憶」與「生活」的文集。《獅》收錄了新加坡三個世代、廿六位作家，對於街道故事和地方書寫的全新創作，各自以詩與散文刻畫出新加坡的往昔、現在與未來。

　　《獅》的作家有霸氣地把大坡小坡寫透透的周維介，有在小印度拜師學藝的黃子明，有寫黑街舊事的吳偉才，有沿著盒巴巴耶禮峇路來回走的潘正鐳，有回憶和展望死人街的何志良與林方偉，有致柏提路一帶猴子與貓們的歐筱佩，有寫日日上班必經之路的蔡欣洵，有寫不存在的「登百靈坊」的楊薇薇等。

　　有人說，過了三代後，一個人活著的所有痕跡就會隨之消失與被遺忘，那一座年輕的城邦、島國或城市呢？看新加坡的嬗變與蛻變時，除了開啟「緬懷」（nostalgia）模式外，你我曾經生活的每一個「當下」與「來時路」都值得透過文字保留一下，作為一份給自己與後人的饋贈。

　　本書附主編汪來昇的新跋〈心之所向〉，回顧編書的緣起、讀者互動與文化傳播的各種奇妙路徑——若繁體版是讓新加坡走出國門，那簡體版則是溫柔地回歸故土。

　　感謝所有為此書留下文字與影像的作者與讀者，你們讓獅城的輪廓，不只存於地圖，也在記憶與文字裡活著。希望更多人開始關心「獅城」的人文地理與文學，同時，也有更多地方書寫的文學創作湧現。

編者簡介

　　汪來昇，新加坡作家、詩人、譯者、出版人及專欄作家，畢業於新加坡南洋理工大學中文系，現任新文潮出版社社長兼總編輯；其文學作品與評論散見於新馬、中港台等地的報刊與文學期刊。

　　汪來昇於2023年榮獲南洋理工大學頒發的「人文學院傑出院友獎」（NTU SoH Alumni Awards），以表彰他對新加坡文學與出版事業的傑出貢獻；2022年與2025年，他受邀擔任新加坡教育部中學語文特選課程寫作營駐營作家，致力於文學創作人才的培養與教育；2024年，於法蘭克福書展受邀擔任講座講者，分享新加坡文學發展與同志文學。

　　汪來昇著有詩集《喧囂過後》（2014）、《消滅眾神》（2016）；曾創辦文學雜誌《WhyNot 不為什麼》（共七期，2013–2018）；編有詩選集《一首詩的時間》（兩輯，2016、2017）、《不可預期》（2018）；文集《我獅城，我街道》（兩輯，2022、2025）；公共政策文集《觀感獅城》（2023）。此外，他亦積極涉足翻譯領域，譯有2023年新加坡青年藝術家獎得主林偉傑英文詩集《大重啟》（2025）；並與人合譯鄭綺文的英文兒童繪本《別人可能會這樣說，但我認為……》（2025）。　

聯合推薦（按拼音排列）：

陳麗儀、董啟章、杜順吉、郭慕義、韓麗珠、柯思仁、林增如、蘇偉貞、吳易叡、張承堯、張國強、朱亞君

目次

主編手札　以文學作為另一種記錄｜汪來昇
序一　街道與時間｜董啟章
序二　島與島：詩與雞蛋花｜蘇偉貞
攝影手札　攝影者說｜符志修

上山下山的童年｜鄺偉雄
我寫黑街｜吳偉才
我家在芽籠｜鍾秀玲
加東｜馮啟明
當楊厝港路夢見後港五條石｜林得楠
邊境｜牛油小生
橋南橋北消散的市井氣｜周維介
左右的回憶｜艾禺
桃花不再｜蔡欣洵
我們——致柏提路一帶的猴子與貓們｜歐筱佩
我住死人街｜林方偉
難忘死人街｜何志良
沿著老路來回走｜潘正鐳
海格路——龍潭虎穴中的桃花園｜黃文傑
「登百靈坊」｜楊薇薇
Goodman Road 與富有詩意的「月眠路」｜李氣虹
長長｜伍政瑋
我的「童工」年代｜洪均榮
欖核中的黃埔｜周昭亮
大巴窯八巷｜譚光雪
兒時記憶——俊源街與其周圍的老街舊事｜曾國平
無路可返的故鄉——芽籠東蔥茅園｜鄭景祥
從二馬路到五馬路｜吳慶康
小印度的一份情緣｜黃子明
波東巴西，我這般中意的小鎮｜林偉傑
那一路的事後幸福與遺憾｜李集慶

跋　心之所向｜汪來昇

作家簡介

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ISBN：978-981-94-0366-0
出版社：新文潮出版社私人有限公司
出版日期：2025年8月
建議分類：新加坡文學、當代文學、人文地理
系列：文學島語015
聯繫：contact@trendlitpublishing.com

About Aerial Roots

Aerial Roots is a poetry collection that meditates on the liminal space of displacement and settlement, arrivals and departures, uprootedness, and assimilation. It is between these hybrid shifts of time and place, of bilocation, that diasporic writers dwell for most of their lives. 

Visualising the ongoing narratives as akin to the banyan tree and its allegorical roots, the poems revisit the vast canvas of memory, places, and lived experiences. This collection negotiates and interrogates the complex issues of identity, ethnicity, belonging, heritage, and multiple homes to know where and what home is. 

About Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal

Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal is an Indian-Singaporean poet and author of two poetry collections. Her work has appeared in the Practice Research & Tangential Activities (PR&TA) Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Best Asian Poetry, The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, Trivium, Little Things, to let the light in, Anima Methodi, and elsewhere. 

Poems from her previous collection Between Sips of Masala Chai (Kitaab International, 2019) have been selected for secondary school curriculum in Singapore. Her poem, ‘Hymn of Hope’, written during the pandemic for the Homeward project, was performed by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra. Some of her poems have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese Ink-Art. 

Her poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize and awarded second place in The Letter Review Prize, 2022. Her third collection, Aerial Roots, was awarded The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books, 2024. She has read poetry at the Singapore Writers Festival, the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, Poetry on the Move, Canberra, The RevTen Radio, USA, and the Festival of Friendship (Revolution of Tenderness, USA).

Shilpa has adjudicated several poetry competitions including the National Poetry Competition, the CLASS Poetry Competition, the National Poetry Recitation Competition, and the Write and Burn Spoken Word Competition. Shilpa serves on the organising committee of Poetry Festival Singapore as a poet and literary organiser.

Born and raised in India, Shilpa completed her Master's in Computer Management (MCM) from Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Symbiosis University, Pune. She worked in a leading IT services company before relocating to Singapore in 2001. She has recently completed her second Master's, M.A. (Arts) from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Shilpa resides in Singapore with her family.
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Recommendations/Blurbs

These poems take us to the minutiae of the author’s beloved landscapes, familiar haunts and remembered neighbourhoods, but a new, rich tapestry of sights and sounds; of ethnic variety and riches. This is food for the soul; part of a significant journey of discovery, recall and recovery, a traveller’s recognition of how nature’s beneficence is a palpable blessing no matter where one is in the world.

 — Anne Lee Tzu Pheng

Tender. Present. Generous. Dignified. Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal’s Aerial Roots is a deeply contemplative collection, intelligent and lustrous in its surfacing of rich feeling and authenticity. Perambulating around the banyan tree are poems laced in heavy symbolism. Threaded through are astonishingly beautiful images and sounds. The confessional moments meander their way confidently through verse, from the ghazal and haibun to prose poem. One becomes witness to a fondness—of memory, of nostalgia. Wait for the beautiful epiphanies, even as time and space remain suspended in this alluring lyric imagination. One encounters a poetry that bravely looks at ideas of identity, border crossings, diaspora, heritage, tradition, community, family, and what it means to belong. Indeed, this is a welcome homecoming for the author, and what a grand tour of a life’s journeying it has been. Sublime. Remarkable. Simply magnificent.

— Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize

Shilpa's poetry traces how shifting light, from "coppered dawn" to "a sundown mist [descending] on the ghats," illuminates the tender narrative of a family in transition. The play between natural radiance and urban gleam becomes an objective correlative for the immigrant clan's own metamorphosis. Each poem distills the complex emotions of leaving and arriving, of roots seeking new soil while branches reach toward changed skies.

—Eric Tinsay Valles, poet, editor and educator

Shilpa's is a voice that is at once intelligent and humane. Her work is dynamic and beautifully paced—a culturally rich and sensually stimulating experience that is, quite simply, a joy to read.

— Kita Das, Ol James
The Letter Review

Shilpa has beautifully meshed the world she grew up in and with the world she currently calls home. She draws parallels between her childhood by recalling memories of Little India and her Amma, and finds joy in how technology keeps the family together internationally. This collection of poems invites the reader into her world of duality, through her thoughtfully crafted words.

— Latha
Writer

Through richly evocative language and a keen eye for botanical metaphors, Shilpa embarks on a poignant exploration of movement and displacement, love and belonging, and the liminal spaces between migration and settlement. Buttressed by her transnational sensibilities, the personal and the universal entwine in her poetry, serving as a living, breathing testament to the intricate connections between place, identity, and the human experience. Like seeds that grow into mighty banyan trees, Shilpa's poems weave a tapestry of interwoven perspectives, akin to a reticulated network of aerial roots—one which branches out into a forest of reflection and imagination that takes root in the reader's mind.

— Ow Yeong Wai Kit
Educator and Poet  

These poems are lush with images and symbols from the two countries/cultures Shilpa deftly inhabits, her original home in India and the new in Singapore where she now lives. The diction reflects this reality,  the English enriched with untranslatable words from the mother country and allusions ( people, places, birds, trees etc), pointing to a restless, assimilative mind journeying to seek identities, roots, and loops in her rich past and present.
 
A cornucopia of poetry.

— Robert Yeo
 Poet and Playwright

Aerial Roots is a heartfelt homage to memories of the poet’s time spent in India, her country of origin. Set under the metaphoric, awning leitmotif of the banyan tree, Thapliyal’s poems offer the reader a universe with hidden windows that open unto an “undergrowth of decades”. One unlocks new meanings every time one enters her work. The poems speak of dislocation, migration, identity or the loss of it, and of the untethered state of our being, while also being contained within exquisite, precise language. The poet has a remarkable ability to draw connections between the personal and the cosmic, the present and the past, longing and reality. Her work is tender, incisive, clear-sighted and deeply intimate, replete with “stains and spills of plump memories”. Her poetry stuns us, wounds us, keeps us warm, while being unapologetically her own. The poems display amazing manoeuvring of the terrain of the page and the mind - a gentle flow, akin to a river’s graceful swirl on its journey. The memories shared with us are mesmerising and quintessentially, culturally, charmingly Indian. Indeed her poems hold “… lamps to moonless skies”. The collection is a milestone written on the existential nuances of life. Every line, an “aperture for departure”.

— Vinita Agrawal
Poet and Editor
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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: 978-981-94-3584-5 (Paperback)
CIP: Available with National Libarary Board, Singapore
Publisher / Imprint: Rosetta Cultures
Date of Publication: August 2025
Suggested Categorization: Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature
Format: 19cm (H) x 13cm (W), 100 pages

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

6.    
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

　　《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。