閱讀雨天

【詩集簡介】

　　這是詩人的第五本詩集，收錄了2016年4月至2017年4月這一年內繆斯賞賜的105首詩作。詩作內容可美稱「多元」（實則雜亂無章），少數寫得好（此話當真？），多數不怎麼樣（聳聳肩這也沒辦法），無論如何，正如詩集名稱「肉與肉的相遇」，如此有肉感的字（與人），可遇不可求，可謂「詩門酒肉臭，心有凍死骨」。詩人認為，出版第五本小詩集，更加名副其實，對得起名字中的「詩」，而不淪為失靈。

【詩人/插畫者簡介】

　　郭詩玲，畢業於馬來西亞柔佛州新山寬柔中小學，新加坡南洋理工大學中文系首屆榮譽學士（副修翻譯）、碩士（漢語言學），考獲南洋藝術學院水墨畫甲等文憑。
　　碩士畢業後留校擔任中文系導師、學術書刊編輯，亦曾受邀擔任中學華文創意寫作課導師、少兒華文創意寫作比賽評審等。
　　曾獲兩屆新加坡大專文學獎文學賞析組獎項。已在新加坡自行出版五部詩集與一部畫集：《我走在我之上》（2014）、《穿著防彈衣的我們怎麼擁抱》（2015）、《當你靈感塞車》（2016）、《得不到你時得到你》（2017，自繪插畫）、《野生的心：郭詩玲水墨畫集》（2018）、《肉與肉的相遇》（2019，自繪插畫）。
　　詩集出版後，20餘首詩受邀刊於台灣詩刊《衛生紙+》；亦有10首詩載於上海譯文出版社的期刊《外國文藝》。詩作選錄於2019年台灣九歌出版社的《華文文學百年選·馬華卷2：小說、新詩》。
　　受邀擔任台灣台北市文化局主辦的「2019台北詩歌節」的「國際詩人」。

　　《潘朵拉的任意門》是異質詩社出版的新詩選集。

　　詩社介紹：由新加坡年輕中文詩歌愛好者發起的社團「異質」於2003年4月1日正式成立。社名「異質」指涉異樣的品質與質地，無論地域、時代、傳統、語言或形式；唯有差別而沒有高下。再者，名稱也諧音「意誌」，隱喻創社團員對匯聚同好、相互切磋的堅持。

　　「異質」致力於為中文現代詩的創作者兼或讀者設置鑒賞與交流的網絡平臺，並同時促進同其他文學形式、語言媒介和文化社群的互動。為此詩社設有網上論壇及定期出版網上月刊。

此書是洪曉嫻創作十年來首本結集，收入她自十年來的詩作近五十首。詩集全面展現詩人由初試啼聲到成為成熟詩人的詩歌技藝。詩歌強烈的抒情味道，從各種獨特的語言中散發出來：廚房裡魚血豔麗如蔻丹；剝開一果如石的九月石榴；海洋的波瀾收納一段秘密的哀傷；針長的花瓣落地旋即又被踩碎糊爛成一整個雨季。感情匿藏在意象背後，卻在不同的顏色、植物、空間中，緩緩的流出來。

誌記過世的母親，山水十疊，哀喜七察。而房子有情，一如草木，出故土，入異域，文字亦如往事歷歷。際此城天末涼風，詩也在在追問：君子意如何？噫嚱君子何在？雨餘心懷，無妨文字明亮。

《雨餘中一座明亮的房子》此為作者第八本詩集，收二○一五年至二○一七年間詩作六十三首，既承接散文集《字如初見》裡對過世母親的懷想，也延續復刻詩集《生長的房子》裡對生活事物的剎那觸感，一併連讀，即展開了「物詩」的全景圖。詩人內省自持，同時以明亮文字映照我城風雲色變，仔細讀來，一如沉穩的呼吸，輕撫日常燥動與憤懣，讓人牢記原初的悸動。

「母親抱恙居家靜養時，也是庭前黃皮樹日漸殘損凋零的時刻。但我仍能時刻記著那龐沛雨水中纍纍重負，以及雨霽時果實凝聚著的點點晶瑩透亮的水珠，髣髴時光就此、長此凝住。」——〈雨餘心懷，明亮文字〉

ALES FROM A TINY ROOM (2ND PRINTING)
by Wayne Rée
published by Math Paper Press

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Two gods sit on a park bench and compare universes. A woman has to find herself after discovering she’s an unwanted clone. A man changes with every city he’s in. An ancient beast hunts a very real monster.

Fourteen stories, taking you from the everyday to the extraordinary. These are the Tales From a Tiny Room.

AN EPIC OF DURABLE DEPARTURES
by Jason Wee
published by Math Paper Press

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This new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga and haiku as departure points, Wee wrestles with the limits of art and of the document even as he summons werewolves, ghosts, and other myths. Faced with the inadequacies of witness, An Epic moves towards the living in reverse time, opening with obituaries and ending with a renewed beginning.

footnotes on falling
by Joshua Ip
published by Math Paper Press

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footnotes on falling is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite, and asian. they shuffle their feet sideways while declining eye contact. they indulge in wordplay because it gives them something to do with their fingers. they prefer to read out but also prefer this be done in private. they secretly would like you to bring them home.

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.