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making love with scrabble tiles

making love with scrabble tiles is about love with language; words with friends; and sex with toys. in his second collection, joshua ip invites you to sit down across the board, as he lays down letters in the patterns of past or imagined relationships. some words speak for themselves, but others taste best when balanced tenuously on the tip of your tongue.


Through his expert craft of words, Ip constructs different vignettes of intimate relationships... Even to the untrained poetry reader, Ip’s poetry does not come across as overly contrived or thematically complicated. Rather, his use of language is economical and simple, allowing for even poetry beginners to appreciate his craft.

- Raffles Reviews

Within its pages I discovered modern-day love stories peppered with Chinese myths, the quirks of Singlish, and a first date spent eating crab delicacies at a local chain.

-Kareena Gianani, for NatGeo Traveller
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  • Home
  • art
    • poetry >
      • sonnets from the singlish
      • making love with scrabble tiles
      • footnotes on falling
      • SingPoWriMo
      • A Luxury We Cannot Afford
      • Unfree Verse
      • Twin Cities
      • call and response
      • 11x9
      • Farquhar
      • To Let the Light In
      • translations to the tanglish
      • Ipster Cafe @ The Middle Ground
    • graphic novel
    • music >
      • musicals
      • lyrics
      • a capella
    • prose
    • where to buy
  • about
  • stuff
    • events
    • press
    • publications
    • ideas