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  • ISBN-13: 9781847772275
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Jee Leong Koh
  • Price: AUD $22.99
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  • Local release date: 12/11/2015
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 100g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Singapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh's first book to be published in Great Britain is rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His language is colloquial, musical, aware of the infusion of various traditions and histories. 'You go where? / I'm going from the latterly to the litany, from writs to rites.' The poems share many of the harsh and enriching circumstances that shape the imagination of a postcolonial queer writer. Taking leaves from other poets -- Emilia Lanyer, Eavan Boland, Xunka' Utz'utz' Ni', Lee Tzu Pheng -- Koh creates a text that is distinctively his own.
JEE LEONG KOH was born and raised in Singapore. He moved to New York in 2003. He has a BA in English (first class honours) from Oxford University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He is the curator of the website Singapore Poetry and the co-chair of the inaugural Singapore Literature Festival in New York City. This is his fifth book of poems and the first to be published in the UK.
" Koh" is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems. "Vijay Seshadri, " author, "The Long Meadow"
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