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The Singer and Other Poems

Kim Cheng Boey

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English
Cordite Publishing Inc.
01 June 2022

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*Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle age

places and times rendered in vivid, sensory detail

to give a haunting exploration of memory and the emigrant experience: departures and arrivals; family and home; exile, longing and loss.

'When I was younger, poetry carried me posthaste, high on the fuel of experience and freshness of thought. Now I move in slow time, listen to the poem as I carry it, and let memory tell me where to go.' - Kim Cheng Boey

'In this work of a mature artist, Kim Cheng Boey's characteristic style

literary, allusive, with a flneur's sensibility

is on full display.' - Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Imprint:   Cordite Publishing Inc.
Country of Publication:   Australia
ISBN:   9780648917663
ISBN 10:   0648917665
Pages:   102
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kim Cheng Boey emigrated to Australia from Singapore in 1997. His poems have featured in the literature syllabus of the GCE A Level, the HSC and the International Baccalaureate. Besides poetry, he has published a travel memoir, Between Stations, and Gull Between Heaven and Earth, a historical novel about the Tang poet Du Fu.

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