some news

i might have new text out this year! math paper press going under led to all of my individual titles  and the majority of my anthos going out of print, less whatever stock is still in bookstores and in my personal stash.

but there have been a few positive developments -  (1) i am in discussions with a publisher about bringing out a New and Selected Works this year! if it goes through, it will gather 44 poems selected from my first five-ish collections (sonnets from the singlish, making love with scrabble tiles, sonnets from the singlish UPSIZE EDITION, footnotes on falling, farquhar, translations to the tanglish), and 44 new pieces, which include some selections of previously unpublished formal and spoken word pieces, and a huge chunk of creative translations that make up my phd journey of the last six years. pretty excited about letting this see the light of day! (2) i intend to top up my personal stock of translations to the tanglish with a small self-published print run, so that will continue to be findable in stores (!); (3) my PhD is wrapping up (fingers crossed), and as part of my submission and examination in April, I'll be printing a very very limited edition run of my creative folio to pass to my examiners and fellow PRS journeyers - maybe 20 copies. there's a fair bit of overlap with the "New" bit of my "New and Selected", but not entirely - there are some pieces I don't intend to publish anywhere else, ever...

but yeah - it's pretty exciting to be working with designers and pdfs again, getting to know the layout of a book. have been quiet for a couple of years, but finally coming back into the print biz.