POETRY
Poetry Collections
translations to the tanglish, Math Paper Press, Aug 2021
Farquhar, ebook, Ethos Books, Apr 2020
footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, May 2018
sonnets from the singlish upsize edition, Math Paper Press, Nov 2015
making love with scrabble tiles, Math Paper Press, Nov 2013
sonnets from the singlish, Math Paper Press, Jul 2012
Curated Folios
Dead Poets Society for poetry.sg, edited with Iain Lim, Aug-Oct 2023
Hong Kong-Singapore Digital Travel Bubble for poetry.sg edited with Eddie Tay, Jan 2021.
Track Changes for poetry.sg, edited with Jerome Lim, Jun-Dec 2020.
Singapore folio for Cordite Poetry Review, guest-edited with Alvin Pang, Nov 2020.
Writing Singapore, special issue of Cha: An Asian Journal - guest-edited together with Eddie Tay, Oct 2018
Poetry Anthologies (Edited)
A Luxury: an omnibus edition of A Luxury We Cannot Afford and A Luxury We Must Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia and Cheryl Julia Lee, 2021
Call and Response 2: a migrant / local poetry anthology, co-edited with Bhing Navato, Poh Yong Han and Zakir Hossain, 2021
11 x 9: a Philippines / Singapore poetry anthology, co-edited with Martin Villanueva, Nov 2019
Call and Response: a migrant / local poetry anthology, co-edited with Rolinda Onates Espanola and Zakir Hossain, Nov 2018
Twin Cities: A twin cinema anthology of HK and Singapore Writing, co-edited with Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Landmark Books, Nov 2017
Unfree Verse, co-edited with Tse Hao Guang and Theophilus Kwek, Ethos Books, Jun 2017
A Luxury We Must Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia and Cheryl Julia Lee, Math Paper Press, Dec 2016
SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology, co-edited with Daryl Yam and Ruth Tang, Math Paper Press, Nov 2016
SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology, co-edited with Jennifer Anne Champion and Daryl Yam, Math Paper Press, Nov 2015
A Luxury We Cannot Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia, Math Paper Press, Math Paper Press, Nov 2014
SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology, co-edited with Ann Ang and Pooja Nansi, Math Paper Press, Nov 2014
Poetry Anthologies (Included)
Collected Works of Ho Poh Fun, Ethos Books, forthcoming 2024, yes miss ho
"Voices from "A" Vol. 2", ed. Shin Nakagawa, forthcoming 2023, Singapore selection
Le Chaos dans 14 vers. Anthologie bilingue du sonnet anglais, ed. trans. Pierre Vinclair, selection from sonnets from the singlish
Eat Here or Take Away?, Landmark Books, Dec 2022, Hawker - tasting menu for 2030 season
QLRS 20th anniversary anthology, Dakota Books, 2022, On QLRS
Ñaat? When Is Now, Agam Agenda, ed. Carissa Pobre, forthcoming 2022, pantun for an angsana
Sense and Sensitivity: A Guide to Unseen Poetry ed. Dr Suzanne Choo and Dr Robert Yeo, forthcoming 2022, first kiss
A Given Grace: web anthology, Squircle Line Press, Dec 2021, psalm 42, names, fool song
Divining Dante, Recent Work Press, Sep 2021, dante digestif singapura
Local Flavours, Tusitala, curated by Daryl W.J. Lim, ctk
Mingled Voices 5, Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 Anthology, Apr 2021, the master never reveals the 18th stroke, the accusation of the banana bread
Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, Nov 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 4, 5, 6, 7, translated from Pierre Vinclair
Food Republic, ed. Ann Ang, Daryl Lim, Tse Hao Guang, Landmark Books, Jul 2020, soft-boiled, dance of the tea eggs, first date at jumbo seafood
No News: 90 poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast, ed. Paul Munden, Alvin Pang, Shane Strange, Recent Work Press, April 2020, coda
La Sauvagerie, ed. Pierre Vinclair, Biophilia, April 2020, ficus katendei
Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry, ed. Ann Ang, Angelia Poon, Esther Vincent, Loh Chin Ee, Ethos Books, Feb 2020, the old builder complains to the new town planner; put down the phone, you said.
The Near and The Far Volume 2, Sep 2019, Scribe Publications, Wherever You Are
The Practice is The Research, RMIT PRS anthology, Sep 2019, A KFC in Bukit Timah Plaza, As Unsolicited as an Apology, What is Coasting
The Nature of Poetry, ed. Edwin Thumboo and Eric Valles, NParks, Jul 2019, the trees
ANIMA METHODI: The Poetics of Mirroring, ed. Desmond Kon and Eric Valles, Squircle Line Press, Nov 2018, WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
不可预期 - 诗精50首，ed. 孤星子，洪均荣，陈文慧. Ethos Books, Nov 2018, 我的国家
Singapore Literature Prize 2018 Commemorative Book, homebuilding, soft-boiled, chope, Dec 2018
Voice & Verse, Dec 2017, first date at jumbo seafood
The Utama Review, Landmark Books, Nov 2017, Love Matched (after Hedwig Anuar's Love Match)
SingPoWriMo 17: The Anthology, ed. Ruth Tang, Stephanie Dogfoot and Daryl Qilin Yam, Nov 2017, your name|my name, that would be enough
一首诗的时间2016精选集, 新文潮文学团, Nov 2017, 如果这是我爱你最好的距离
Lines Spark Code, ed. Christine Chia and Aaron Lee, Ethos Books, Nov 2017, explaining a thousand cranes
Unfree Verse, ed. Tse Hao Guang, Joshua Ip, Theophilus Kwek, Ethos Books, 2017, grandmother prays, entry, the civil servant's picnic, the old builder complains to the new town planner, first date at jumbo seafood, the singaporean talks to the african about rivers
ASINGBOL - an archaeology of the singaporean poetic form, ed. Desmond Kon, Squircle Line Press, 2017, 武侠，江湖 (Heroes, Rivers and Lakes)
Here Now There After, ed. Yong Shu Hoong, Marshall Cavendish, 2017, the way ashes do, boring
In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel, Math Paper Press, 2016, spread
SingPoWrimo 16: The Anthology, ed. Joshua Ip, Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam, Math Paper Press, 2016, 武侠，江湖 (heroes, rivers, lakes), movable, arborescence
SG Poems 2015-2016, ed. Eric Tinsay Valles et al, National Poetry Festival and Ethos Books, 2016, Glam, remembering singapore
This is Not a Safety Barrier, ed. Marc Nair, Ethos Books, 2016, ondeh ondeh, xiaolongbao, curry puff
154 - responses to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Live Canon, 2016, To Wikipedia
一首诗的时间2015精选集, 新文潮文学团, 2016, 不够诗，国民服役1965年，去动词
SingPoWriMo 15: The Anthology, ed. Jennifer Anne Champion, Joshua Ip, Daryl Qilin Yam, Math Paper Press, 2015, obituary for PM Li, there are four kinds of people in this world, piecemeal
Eye/Feel/Write For You, ed. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde Ethos Books, 2014, liwuli of accumulated honesty, iluwil of borrowed photo-taker; liwuli of watcher, iluwil of sculptor
SingPoWriMo 14: The Anthology, ed. Ann Ang, Joshua Ip, Pooja Nansi, Math Paper Press, 2014, a NTUC in ghim moh, machine porn, liwuli of liwuli, sarah
Under One Sky - Read! Singapore Anthology 2013, NLB, 2013, chope
Little Things: A Poetry Anthology, ed. Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent, Ethos Books, 2013, chope
Peregrine, University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing Journal, 2006
onewinged, Creative Arts Programme Anthology, 2001, monkey god, corridor
No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, ed. Aaron Lee and Alvin Pang, Ethos Books, 2000, remembering trees
Eye on the World, Creative Arts Programme, 1999
Competitions
Honorable Mention, Golden Point Awards 2015 (Chinese Poetry) for 74号
Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2014 (English Poetry) for sonnets from the singlish
2nd Place, Golden Point Awards 2011 (English Poetry)
Commendation, Shell-RJC Poetry Competition 1998, 2000
Journals and Magazines
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Lying Flat, forthcoming 2025, handover, life is just one very very long day
The Shanghai Literary Review, Jun 2024, mid-autumn, for the esplanade, by the water, views on jan 6, the book of laughter and forgetting
NiTRO + Creative Matters, May 2024, practice research
Cordite Poetry Review 109, No Theme 12, May 2023, family tree, years' end
Vogue Singapore, March 2023, The Singapore River: Cleaning My Tongue (also IG clip read by Tan Kheng Hua)
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 70: Neighborhood, April 2023, Reclamation, Figure of Speech, cheong chin nam
softblow, Dec 2021, new year's eve, junction of ulu pandan and clementi road, phillips investor centre, a dream of sentosa cove
Tiger Moth Review Issue 6, Jul 2021, the comments, over the PIE
Transnational Literature, forthcoming 2021, thoughts, silent night; bitcoin; morning after
Bengaluru Review, Spring 2021 issue, morning at joo chiat, eid al-adha, off day
Cha: An Asian Journal, Feb 2021, editorial + ellipsis, kira-kira filter, a bandwidth song, redhead, ONE MORE ROUND, neither civil nor servant, susurrus.
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine: Issue 57: Distance, Jan 2021, leaving wuhan in march: a contemporary transcreation of li bai
Diode Poetry, Dec 2020, the master never reveals the 18th stroke, over-achieving
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Oct 2020, Upgrading
Anak Sastra Literary Journal Issue 40, 2020, cleaner than clean
Sinetheta Magazine Issue #16 Vertex 角, 2020, RESPECTFULLY SHERYL, IT IS FUCKING EXHAUSTING
Eunoia Review, Jul 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 23-37 (Une couronne/ a crown), translated from Pierre Vinclair
OFZOOS, Jul 2020, the accusation of the thrice-baked banana bread
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 54: Masks, Jun/Jul 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 2, 9, 11, 12, 13, translated from Pierre Vinclair
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Apr 2020, Extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 3, 10, translated from Pierre Vinclair
The Birthday Collective, Generation C19 issue, Apr 2020, Coronasonnet 1 - A Gathering of 20 people; Coronasonnet 2 - THE MORE THEY ASK THE MORE I WANT TO COUGH; Coronasonnet 3 - WHERE WERE YOU THE WEEKEND OF BUYSINGLIT, THE MOH CONTACT-TRACER ASKS
Tiger Moth Review, Mar 2020, lo-cal
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 53: Virus, April/May 2020, Your Message Is Taking Longer Than Usual To Send: a translation of Du Fu's "Si Yuan"
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Oct 2019, a poem engaged with the moon
The Local Train Magazine, Oct 2019, letting go
Eunoia Review, Sep 2019, last night the furniture attacked the gays, Get Ready Already, Chilli Bawang
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 46: Intercourse & Intertextuality, April/May 2019, the nipples
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 44: 1818, Jan/Feb 2019, twin cinema for a father's day
Revue Catastrophes Issue 7, thereabouts (LARGUE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 7 , hereing problem (DEFICIT D'OUIE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 6 « À la guerre comme », 2018, neither here nor there (NI ICI, NI LÀ), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 5 « L’Esprit du bas », 2018, heresy (ILLICITE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Griffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now, 2018, a commonwealth dictionary
Asia Literary Review Issue 34, 2017, twin cinema of arnoldii rafflesia
Kyoto Journal Issue 89, 2017, twin cinema of a sunday election
Social Dialogue Issue 17, Vol 5, Sep 2017, i am building a wall
We Are A Website, Issue 7, Sep 2017, without you, the girl who was made entirely of high-quality cocoa products
Eloquent Orifice, Oct 2017, watercolours, weak translations for the wee hours, yuan liang
Griffith Review 57: Perils of Populism, 2017, i am building a wall
Ofi Press, Aug 17, destination
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Jun 2017, shikata ga nai
Eunoia Review, Jun 2017, dear editor of the journal of unrequited poems, on turning a two-dimensional person into three dimensions, your name | my name
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, defensive architecture, Vol 16 No 2 Apr 2017
OFZOOS, Issue 5.1, Sonnet from the Singlish 130b, with Jerome Lim
Rambutan Literary, thirty, Issue Two
The Jakarta Post, 2 Jul 2016, colorblind
softblow, Jun 16, to leave unsaid, parting words, end lines, weight loss
The Jakarta Post, Page Turner, 8 May 2016, tongues
The Straits Times, 8 May 2016, to a concerned citizen
The Middle Ground, regular column 2015-2016 - Tuesdays at Ipster Cafe
Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now, the umbrella men
Asia Literary Review, Summer 2015, the umbrella men
Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue #57: Fall/Winter 2015, the last boy of singapore
Challenge, Jan 2015, the civil servants' picnic
WHYNOT #03 《不为什么》第三期, Jan 2015, 我的国家，软。硬, 风花雪月
Blue Lyra Review, Aug 2014, put down the phone, buzzed
Singapore Poetry, Jul 2014, explaining a thousand cranes, commentary by Koh Jee Leong
Aussage, Vol 2//Issue 2, Summer 2014, overheard at al azhar
Singapore Memory Project, Mar 2014, bukit timah, singapore
Southeast Asia Globe, Jan 2014, first date at jumbo seafood, commentary by Nathan Thompson
Litmus Express, Jan 2014, lamenting the lack of private spaces in our country
Substation Love Letters Project, Sep 2013, twilight
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Jun 2013, first date at jumbo seafood,
Kumquat Poetry (defunct), rochor road beancurd, (other link)
OFZOOS Issue 2.1, May 2013, the twilight saga
softblow, Apr 2013, simultaneous equations, the singaporean talks to the african about rivers, tai ji, plastic bags
Eunoia Review, Apr 2013, how to fold a kawasaki rose, hypochondria, first kiss
Reprint Poetry, Dec 2012, housebuilding
Syllabi/Textbooks
HL0201: Images of Singapore: Literature, Film & Culture, NTU English Department, Lye Kit Ying
HL1005 Singapore Literature & Culture I, NTU English Department, Jane Wong
ku-lit: asian literature for the language classroom, edited by Dr Dennis Yeo, Elaine Lim and Vivienne Chua, NAC-Pearson, 2013, plastic bags
PROSE
Prose Anthologies (Included)
Peering Into Our Future, Mutant Communications / Waves of Change Festival 2022, 2022, WaterWorld
The Birthday Book, edited by Malminderjit Singh, Ethos Books, 2016 Pax Singapura - Pasar SEAnglish?
Best New Singaporean Short Stories Volume Two, edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, Epigram Books, 2015, the man who turned into a photocopier
Union: 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore, edited by Ravi Shankar and Alvin Pang, 2015, the man who turned into a photocopier
From The Belly of the Cat, edited by Stephanie Ye, Math Paper Press, 2013, ROBOTZ ATTACKZ THE CITEH
Balik Kampung 2A, edited by Verena Tay, Math Paper Press, 2013, peace is a foot reflexology parlor
Competitions
1st Place, Golden Point Awards 2013 (English Short Story)
Journals and Magazines
TEXT Journal Special Issue 64: Poetry Now , "Digital communities at work: Singapore Poetry Writing Month", Joshua Ip, Ann Ang and Cheryl Julia Lee.
QLRS 20th anniversary Special Print edition, "On QLRS"
SingPoWriMo.com, 2019.2, "Where Have All The Critics Gone"?
The Straits Times, "#WhySingLit: Singapore literature's coming of age", 23 Feb 2017
Esquire Magazine, Dec 16, The Everyday Troll Behind Singapore's Progress
Mynah Magazine Issue 1, A Half-Life Ago
SG Heart Map @ the Float, Aug 2015, dragon playground
Esquire Magazine, Aug 2015, the state of singaporean men: DOTA,
Monocle Forecast, the man who turned into a photocopier
COLLABORATIONS
Grand Poetry Tournament, with OUTSPOKEN: Competitive Spoken Word and Spoke&Bird, judge. judge poem
Collegia: A Nexus of Songs, choral music by Charlene "Cloud" Lim and Vox Camerata, based on making love with scrabble tiles
"Bagai Anjing Dengan Kucing", a short video by Izzul Hakim, based on conversaytions from sonnets from the singlish.
"In the midst of...", a pandemic opera by Hippocrates Cheng, drawing on "your message is taking longer than usual to send"
PR&TA, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of creative practice.
Hold the Line, a video on what poetry can be for Pierre Vinclair's book, by Ethos Books, 2020
Food x Art Podcast, a vidcast by Shamini Flint on food and art in Singapore, 2020
LIMINAL, a short film based on grandmother shows us her $3 comb from sonnets from the singlish upsize edition, by Lim Xiang Yin for LASALLE College of the Arts, forthcoming 2020
Sing Lit Digital Task Force, data analytics project for Sing Lit corpus, with Joses Ho and Rocco Hu, ongoing 2018-2020
Found: The Musical, spoken word musical, with Marc Nair and Mark Nicodemus Tan, ongoing 2017-2020
Night at the Museum, comic, with Kurnia Harta Winata, on hiatus 2020.
2219: Futures Imagined, curated by Alvin Pang and Honor Harger for ArtScience Museum, Nov 2019, of joysparks and chicken rice
Stop, Look and Listen (Note for Note 2020), sonic landscape / theatre piece, with Marc Nair and Cherilyn Woo, 2020, overheard at al-azhar
SING LIT BODY SLAM 2, collaborative performance poetry / professional wrestling hybrid event, with Greg Glorious and Grapple Max Dojo (wrestling choreographer), Joses Ho, Stephanie Dogfoot, David Wong, Kevin Kwong, Melizarani Selva, Shivram Gopinath, Irie Amir (co-writers), Nov 2019
Both Sides Now, Chinese lyrics for musical adaptation of verbatim interview theater piece, with Drama Box, Elaine Chan, Pooja Nansi and Norah Lea, May-Jul 2019
the time traveller's wife, illustrated poem with Kurnia Harta Winata, Vice Comic Week, Vice Indonesia, Feb 2019
contradictions, interpretation of poem through dance by ScRach MarcS, 2018
monkey writes a poem, (recipe) poetry baijiu cocktail mashup with Justin Lane Briggs, 23 Nov 2018
SING LIT BODY SLAM, collaborative performance poetry / professional wrestling hybrid event, with Greg Glorious and Grapple Max Dojo (wrestling choreographer), Joses Ho, Stephanie Dogfoot, David Wong, Rajita Jay (co-writers), Oct 2018
Note for Note: #skintones, music/poetry hybrid performance, with Chok Kerong and Vic Low, Jun 2018
little red dot, musical set piece for SYF 2018 Arts Presentation for Choirs (Primary School), with Liong Kit Yeng (composer)
east west line, pedagogical song for Singapore Teacher's Academy for the Arts with Prof Bernard Tan (composer)
Lost Guides - Singapore Travel Guide, Anna Chittenden, sonnet, 2017.
prends le temps, a translation by Pierre Vinclair
PoemsOnTheMRT, a web anthology of MRT station poetry written in 24 hours, coded by Jerome Lim, written with the poets of SingPoWriMo, Apr 2016
That's Life podcast by Straits Times, hosted by Lydia Vasko, belief system, May 2015
Words over Water: A Celebration of the Singapore River and Marina Bay through Singaporean Writing, with Verena Tay, ROBOTZ ATTACKZ THE CITEH, 31 Oct 2015
Poetry on Platforms, City Hall MRT, National Library Board, simultaneous equations, 16 Jul-13 Aug 2015
NOW, Singapore Vol 1 - Asia's top Singaporean talents, risograph/poem, Edit Life Singapore, machine porn in RGB, with Sarah Tang
Apart, poetry/play, Nov 2014, with Jollin Tan, Pooja Nansi, Tania de Rozario, Cyril Wong, dramaturged by Joel Tan
eye/feel/write broadsides, ekphrastic poems, Nov 2014, liwuli of accumulated honesty, iluwil of borrowed photo-taker, with Desmond Kon
Wallflowers Mag 2nd Anniversary Exhibition, poems, Jun 2014
Story 1: Upper Bukit Timah, walking tour, theangmohnanyangsociety, peace is a foot reflexology parlor, 11 Jun 2014
MoonShadow Stories Readings at SWF, readings, the writer's choice, chope, bridezilla, lamenting the lack of private spaces in our country, conversaytion, by Kamini Ramachandran and LaSalle performing arts students, 9 Nov 2013
Poetry Collections
translations to the tanglish, Math Paper Press, Aug 2021
Farquhar, ebook, Ethos Books, Apr 2020
footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, May 2018
sonnets from the singlish upsize edition, Math Paper Press, Nov 2015
making love with scrabble tiles, Math Paper Press, Nov 2013
sonnets from the singlish, Math Paper Press, Jul 2012
Curated Folios
Dead Poets Society for poetry.sg, edited with Iain Lim, Aug-Oct 2023
Hong Kong-Singapore Digital Travel Bubble for poetry.sg edited with Eddie Tay, Jan 2021.
Track Changes for poetry.sg, edited with Jerome Lim, Jun-Dec 2020.
Singapore folio for Cordite Poetry Review, guest-edited with Alvin Pang, Nov 2020.
Writing Singapore, special issue of Cha: An Asian Journal - guest-edited together with Eddie Tay, Oct 2018
Poetry Anthologies (Edited)
A Luxury: an omnibus edition of A Luxury We Cannot Afford and A Luxury We Must Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia and Cheryl Julia Lee, 2021
Call and Response 2: a migrant / local poetry anthology, co-edited with Bhing Navato, Poh Yong Han and Zakir Hossain, 2021
11 x 9: a Philippines / Singapore poetry anthology, co-edited with Martin Villanueva, Nov 2019
Call and Response: a migrant / local poetry anthology, co-edited with Rolinda Onates Espanola and Zakir Hossain, Nov 2018
Twin Cities: A twin cinema anthology of HK and Singapore Writing, co-edited with Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Landmark Books, Nov 2017
Unfree Verse, co-edited with Tse Hao Guang and Theophilus Kwek, Ethos Books, Jun 2017
A Luxury We Must Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia and Cheryl Julia Lee, Math Paper Press, Dec 2016
SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology, co-edited with Daryl Yam and Ruth Tang, Math Paper Press, Nov 2016
SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology, co-edited with Jennifer Anne Champion and Daryl Yam, Math Paper Press, Nov 2015
A Luxury We Cannot Afford, co-edited with Christine Chia, Math Paper Press, Math Paper Press, Nov 2014
SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology, co-edited with Ann Ang and Pooja Nansi, Math Paper Press, Nov 2014
Poetry Anthologies (Included)
Collected Works of Ho Poh Fun, Ethos Books, forthcoming 2024, yes miss ho
"Voices from "A" Vol. 2", ed. Shin Nakagawa, forthcoming 2023, Singapore selection
Le Chaos dans 14 vers. Anthologie bilingue du sonnet anglais, ed. trans. Pierre Vinclair, selection from sonnets from the singlish
Eat Here or Take Away?, Landmark Books, Dec 2022, Hawker - tasting menu for 2030 season
QLRS 20th anniversary anthology, Dakota Books, 2022, On QLRS
Ñaat? When Is Now, Agam Agenda, ed. Carissa Pobre, forthcoming 2022, pantun for an angsana
Sense and Sensitivity: A Guide to Unseen Poetry ed. Dr Suzanne Choo and Dr Robert Yeo, forthcoming 2022, first kiss
A Given Grace: web anthology, Squircle Line Press, Dec 2021, psalm 42, names, fool song
Divining Dante, Recent Work Press, Sep 2021, dante digestif singapura
Local Flavours, Tusitala, curated by Daryl W.J. Lim, ctk
Mingled Voices 5, Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 Anthology, Apr 2021, the master never reveals the 18th stroke, the accusation of the banana bread
Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, Nov 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 4, 5, 6, 7, translated from Pierre Vinclair
Food Republic, ed. Ann Ang, Daryl Lim, Tse Hao Guang, Landmark Books, Jul 2020, soft-boiled, dance of the tea eggs, first date at jumbo seafood
No News: 90 poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast, ed. Paul Munden, Alvin Pang, Shane Strange, Recent Work Press, April 2020, coda
La Sauvagerie, ed. Pierre Vinclair, Biophilia, April 2020, ficus katendei
Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry, ed. Ann Ang, Angelia Poon, Esther Vincent, Loh Chin Ee, Ethos Books, Feb 2020, the old builder complains to the new town planner; put down the phone, you said.
The Near and The Far Volume 2, Sep 2019, Scribe Publications, Wherever You Are
The Practice is The Research, RMIT PRS anthology, Sep 2019, A KFC in Bukit Timah Plaza, As Unsolicited as an Apology, What is Coasting
The Nature of Poetry, ed. Edwin Thumboo and Eric Valles, NParks, Jul 2019, the trees
ANIMA METHODI: The Poetics of Mirroring, ed. Desmond Kon and Eric Valles, Squircle Line Press, Nov 2018, WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
不可预期 - 诗精50首，ed. 孤星子，洪均荣，陈文慧. Ethos Books, Nov 2018, 我的国家
Singapore Literature Prize 2018 Commemorative Book, homebuilding, soft-boiled, chope, Dec 2018
Voice & Verse, Dec 2017, first date at jumbo seafood
The Utama Review, Landmark Books, Nov 2017, Love Matched (after Hedwig Anuar's Love Match)
SingPoWriMo 17: The Anthology, ed. Ruth Tang, Stephanie Dogfoot and Daryl Qilin Yam, Nov 2017, your name|my name, that would be enough
一首诗的时间2016精选集, 新文潮文学团, Nov 2017, 如果这是我爱你最好的距离
Lines Spark Code, ed. Christine Chia and Aaron Lee, Ethos Books, Nov 2017, explaining a thousand cranes
Unfree Verse, ed. Tse Hao Guang, Joshua Ip, Theophilus Kwek, Ethos Books, 2017, grandmother prays, entry, the civil servant's picnic, the old builder complains to the new town planner, first date at jumbo seafood, the singaporean talks to the african about rivers
ASINGBOL - an archaeology of the singaporean poetic form, ed. Desmond Kon, Squircle Line Press, 2017, 武侠，江湖 (Heroes, Rivers and Lakes)
Here Now There After, ed. Yong Shu Hoong, Marshall Cavendish, 2017, the way ashes do, boring
In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel, Math Paper Press, 2016, spread
SingPoWrimo 16: The Anthology, ed. Joshua Ip, Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam, Math Paper Press, 2016, 武侠，江湖 (heroes, rivers, lakes), movable, arborescence
SG Poems 2015-2016, ed. Eric Tinsay Valles et al, National Poetry Festival and Ethos Books, 2016, Glam, remembering singapore
This is Not a Safety Barrier, ed. Marc Nair, Ethos Books, 2016, ondeh ondeh, xiaolongbao, curry puff
154 - responses to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Live Canon, 2016, To Wikipedia
一首诗的时间2015精选集, 新文潮文学团, 2016, 不够诗，国民服役1965年，去动词
SingPoWriMo 15: The Anthology, ed. Jennifer Anne Champion, Joshua Ip, Daryl Qilin Yam, Math Paper Press, 2015, obituary for PM Li, there are four kinds of people in this world, piecemeal
Eye/Feel/Write For You, ed. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde Ethos Books, 2014, liwuli of accumulated honesty, iluwil of borrowed photo-taker; liwuli of watcher, iluwil of sculptor
SingPoWriMo 14: The Anthology, ed. Ann Ang, Joshua Ip, Pooja Nansi, Math Paper Press, 2014, a NTUC in ghim moh, machine porn, liwuli of liwuli, sarah
Under One Sky - Read! Singapore Anthology 2013, NLB, 2013, chope
Little Things: A Poetry Anthology, ed. Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent, Ethos Books, 2013, chope
Peregrine, University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing Journal, 2006
onewinged, Creative Arts Programme Anthology, 2001, monkey god, corridor
No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, ed. Aaron Lee and Alvin Pang, Ethos Books, 2000, remembering trees
Eye on the World, Creative Arts Programme, 1999
Competitions
Honorable Mention, Golden Point Awards 2015 (Chinese Poetry) for 74号
Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2014 (English Poetry) for sonnets from the singlish
2nd Place, Golden Point Awards 2011 (English Poetry)
Commendation, Shell-RJC Poetry Competition 1998, 2000
Journals and Magazines
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Lying Flat, forthcoming 2025, handover, life is just one very very long day
The Shanghai Literary Review, Jun 2024, mid-autumn, for the esplanade, by the water, views on jan 6, the book of laughter and forgetting
NiTRO + Creative Matters, May 2024, practice research
Cordite Poetry Review 109, No Theme 12, May 2023, family tree, years' end
Vogue Singapore, March 2023, The Singapore River: Cleaning My Tongue (also IG clip read by Tan Kheng Hua)
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 70: Neighborhood, April 2023, Reclamation, Figure of Speech, cheong chin nam
softblow, Dec 2021, new year's eve, junction of ulu pandan and clementi road, phillips investor centre, a dream of sentosa cove
Tiger Moth Review Issue 6, Jul 2021, the comments, over the PIE
Transnational Literature, forthcoming 2021, thoughts, silent night; bitcoin; morning after
Bengaluru Review, Spring 2021 issue, morning at joo chiat, eid al-adha, off day
Cha: An Asian Journal, Feb 2021, editorial + ellipsis, kira-kira filter, a bandwidth song, redhead, ONE MORE ROUND, neither civil nor servant, susurrus.
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine: Issue 57: Distance, Jan 2021, leaving wuhan in march: a contemporary transcreation of li bai
Diode Poetry, Dec 2020, the master never reveals the 18th stroke, over-achieving
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Oct 2020, Upgrading
Anak Sastra Literary Journal Issue 40, 2020, cleaner than clean
Sinetheta Magazine Issue #16 Vertex 角, 2020, RESPECTFULLY SHERYL, IT IS FUCKING EXHAUSTING
Eunoia Review, Jul 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 23-37 (Une couronne/ a crown), translated from Pierre Vinclair
OFZOOS, Jul 2020, the accusation of the thrice-baked banana bread
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 54: Masks, Jun/Jul 2020, extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 2, 9, 11, 12, 13, translated from Pierre Vinclair
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Apr 2020, Extracts from 'Le Confinement du Monde' - 3, 10, translated from Pierre Vinclair
The Birthday Collective, Generation C19 issue, Apr 2020, Coronasonnet 1 - A Gathering of 20 people; Coronasonnet 2 - THE MORE THEY ASK THE MORE I WANT TO COUGH; Coronasonnet 3 - WHERE WERE YOU THE WEEKEND OF BUYSINGLIT, THE MOH CONTACT-TRACER ASKS
Tiger Moth Review, Mar 2020, lo-cal
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 53: Virus, April/May 2020, Your Message Is Taking Longer Than Usual To Send: a translation of Du Fu's "Si Yuan"
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Oct 2019, a poem engaged with the moon
The Local Train Magazine, Oct 2019, letting go
Eunoia Review, Sep 2019, last night the furniture attacked the gays, Get Ready Already, Chilli Bawang
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 46: Intercourse & Intertextuality, April/May 2019, the nipples
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 44: 1818, Jan/Feb 2019, twin cinema for a father's day
Revue Catastrophes Issue 7, thereabouts (LARGUE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 7 , hereing problem (DEFICIT D'OUIE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 6 « À la guerre comme », 2018, neither here nor there (NI ICI, NI LÀ), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Revue Catastrophes Issue 5 « L’Esprit du bas », 2018, heresy (ILLICITE), translated into French by Pierre Vinclair
Griffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now, 2018, a commonwealth dictionary
Asia Literary Review Issue 34, 2017, twin cinema of arnoldii rafflesia
Kyoto Journal Issue 89, 2017, twin cinema of a sunday election
Social Dialogue Issue 17, Vol 5, Sep 2017, i am building a wall
We Are A Website, Issue 7, Sep 2017, without you, the girl who was made entirely of high-quality cocoa products
Eloquent Orifice, Oct 2017, watercolours, weak translations for the wee hours, yuan liang
Griffith Review 57: Perils of Populism, 2017, i am building a wall
Ofi Press, Aug 17, destination
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Jun 2017, shikata ga nai
Eunoia Review, Jun 2017, dear editor of the journal of unrequited poems, on turning a two-dimensional person into three dimensions, your name | my name
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, defensive architecture, Vol 16 No 2 Apr 2017
OFZOOS, Issue 5.1, Sonnet from the Singlish 130b, with Jerome Lim
Rambutan Literary, thirty, Issue Two
The Jakarta Post, 2 Jul 2016, colorblind
softblow, Jun 16, to leave unsaid, parting words, end lines, weight loss
The Jakarta Post, Page Turner, 8 May 2016, tongues
The Straits Times, 8 May 2016, to a concerned citizen
The Middle Ground, regular column 2015-2016 - Tuesdays at Ipster Cafe
Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now, the umbrella men
Asia Literary Review, Summer 2015, the umbrella men
Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue #57: Fall/Winter 2015, the last boy of singapore
Challenge, Jan 2015, the civil servants' picnic
WHYNOT #03 《不为什么》第三期, Jan 2015, 我的国家，软。硬, 风花雪月
Blue Lyra Review, Aug 2014, put down the phone, buzzed
Singapore Poetry, Jul 2014, explaining a thousand cranes, commentary by Koh Jee Leong
Aussage, Vol 2//Issue 2, Summer 2014, overheard at al azhar
Singapore Memory Project, Mar 2014, bukit timah, singapore
Southeast Asia Globe, Jan 2014, first date at jumbo seafood, commentary by Nathan Thompson
Litmus Express, Jan 2014, lamenting the lack of private spaces in our country
Substation Love Letters Project, Sep 2013, twilight
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Jun 2013, first date at jumbo seafood,
Kumquat Poetry (defunct), rochor road beancurd, (other link)
OFZOOS Issue 2.1, May 2013, the twilight saga
softblow, Apr 2013, simultaneous equations, the singaporean talks to the african about rivers, tai ji, plastic bags
Eunoia Review, Apr 2013, how to fold a kawasaki rose, hypochondria, first kiss
Reprint Poetry, Dec 2012, housebuilding
Syllabi/Textbooks
HL0201: Images of Singapore: Literature, Film & Culture, NTU English Department, Lye Kit Ying
HL1005 Singapore Literature & Culture I, NTU English Department, Jane Wong
ku-lit: asian literature for the language classroom, edited by Dr Dennis Yeo, Elaine Lim and Vivienne Chua, NAC-Pearson, 2013, plastic bags
PROSE
Prose Anthologies (Included)
Peering Into Our Future, Mutant Communications / Waves of Change Festival 2022, 2022, WaterWorld
The Birthday Book, edited by Malminderjit Singh, Ethos Books, 2016 Pax Singapura - Pasar SEAnglish?
Best New Singaporean Short Stories Volume Two, edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, Epigram Books, 2015, the man who turned into a photocopier
Union: 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore, edited by Ravi Shankar and Alvin Pang, 2015, the man who turned into a photocopier
From The Belly of the Cat, edited by Stephanie Ye, Math Paper Press, 2013, ROBOTZ ATTACKZ THE CITEH
Balik Kampung 2A, edited by Verena Tay, Math Paper Press, 2013, peace is a foot reflexology parlor
Competitions
1st Place, Golden Point Awards 2013 (English Short Story)
Journals and Magazines
TEXT Journal Special Issue 64: Poetry Now , "Digital communities at work: Singapore Poetry Writing Month", Joshua Ip, Ann Ang and Cheryl Julia Lee.
QLRS 20th anniversary Special Print edition, "On QLRS"
SingPoWriMo.com, 2019.2, "Where Have All The Critics Gone"?
The Straits Times, "#WhySingLit: Singapore literature's coming of age", 23 Feb 2017
Esquire Magazine, Dec 16, The Everyday Troll Behind Singapore's Progress
Mynah Magazine Issue 1, A Half-Life Ago
SG Heart Map @ the Float, Aug 2015, dragon playground
Esquire Magazine, Aug 2015, the state of singaporean men: DOTA,
Monocle Forecast, the man who turned into a photocopier
COLLABORATIONS
Grand Poetry Tournament, with OUTSPOKEN: Competitive Spoken Word and Spoke&Bird, judge. judge poem
Collegia: A Nexus of Songs, choral music by Charlene "Cloud" Lim and Vox Camerata, based on making love with scrabble tiles
"Bagai Anjing Dengan Kucing", a short video by Izzul Hakim, based on conversaytions from sonnets from the singlish.
"In the midst of...", a pandemic opera by Hippocrates Cheng, drawing on "your message is taking longer than usual to send"
PR&TA, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of creative practice.
Hold the Line, a video on what poetry can be for Pierre Vinclair's book, by Ethos Books, 2020
Food x Art Podcast, a vidcast by Shamini Flint on food and art in Singapore, 2020
LIMINAL, a short film based on grandmother shows us her $3 comb from sonnets from the singlish upsize edition, by Lim Xiang Yin for LASALLE College of the Arts, forthcoming 2020
Sing Lit Digital Task Force, data analytics project for Sing Lit corpus, with Joses Ho and Rocco Hu, ongoing 2018-2020
Found: The Musical, spoken word musical, with Marc Nair and Mark Nicodemus Tan, ongoing 2017-2020
Night at the Museum, comic, with Kurnia Harta Winata, on hiatus 2020.
2219: Futures Imagined, curated by Alvin Pang and Honor Harger for ArtScience Museum, Nov 2019, of joysparks and chicken rice
Stop, Look and Listen (Note for Note 2020), sonic landscape / theatre piece, with Marc Nair and Cherilyn Woo, 2020, overheard at al-azhar
SING LIT BODY SLAM 2, collaborative performance poetry / professional wrestling hybrid event, with Greg Glorious and Grapple Max Dojo (wrestling choreographer), Joses Ho, Stephanie Dogfoot, David Wong, Kevin Kwong, Melizarani Selva, Shivram Gopinath, Irie Amir (co-writers), Nov 2019
Both Sides Now, Chinese lyrics for musical adaptation of verbatim interview theater piece, with Drama Box, Elaine Chan, Pooja Nansi and Norah Lea, May-Jul 2019
the time traveller's wife, illustrated poem with Kurnia Harta Winata, Vice Comic Week, Vice Indonesia, Feb 2019
contradictions, interpretation of poem through dance by ScRach MarcS, 2018
monkey writes a poem, (recipe) poetry baijiu cocktail mashup with Justin Lane Briggs, 23 Nov 2018
SING LIT BODY SLAM, collaborative performance poetry / professional wrestling hybrid event, with Greg Glorious and Grapple Max Dojo (wrestling choreographer), Joses Ho, Stephanie Dogfoot, David Wong, Rajita Jay (co-writers), Oct 2018
Note for Note: #skintones, music/poetry hybrid performance, with Chok Kerong and Vic Low, Jun 2018
little red dot, musical set piece for SYF 2018 Arts Presentation for Choirs (Primary School), with Liong Kit Yeng (composer)
east west line, pedagogical song for Singapore Teacher's Academy for the Arts with Prof Bernard Tan (composer)
Lost Guides - Singapore Travel Guide, Anna Chittenden, sonnet, 2017.
prends le temps, a translation by Pierre Vinclair
PoemsOnTheMRT, a web anthology of MRT station poetry written in 24 hours, coded by Jerome Lim, written with the poets of SingPoWriMo, Apr 2016
That's Life podcast by Straits Times, hosted by Lydia Vasko, belief system, May 2015
Words over Water: A Celebration of the Singapore River and Marina Bay through Singaporean Writing, with Verena Tay, ROBOTZ ATTACKZ THE CITEH, 31 Oct 2015
Poetry on Platforms, City Hall MRT, National Library Board, simultaneous equations, 16 Jul-13 Aug 2015
NOW, Singapore Vol 1 - Asia's top Singaporean talents, risograph/poem, Edit Life Singapore, machine porn in RGB, with Sarah Tang
Apart, poetry/play, Nov 2014, with Jollin Tan, Pooja Nansi, Tania de Rozario, Cyril Wong, dramaturged by Joel Tan
eye/feel/write broadsides, ekphrastic poems, Nov 2014, liwuli of accumulated honesty, iluwil of borrowed photo-taker, with Desmond Kon
Wallflowers Mag 2nd Anniversary Exhibition, poems, Jun 2014
Story 1: Upper Bukit Timah, walking tour, theangmohnanyangsociety, peace is a foot reflexology parlor, 11 Jun 2014
MoonShadow Stories Readings at SWF, readings, the writer's choice, chope, bridezilla, lamenting the lack of private spaces in our country, conversaytion, by Kamini Ramachandran and LaSalle performing arts students, 9 Nov 2013