Description
Title: Singer & Other Poems
Author: BOEY KIM CHENG
Illustrator: LIM SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN (INTRODUCTION)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2022
Imprint: CORDITE
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
**Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**
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 flâneur s sensibility is on full display. Shirley Geok-lin Lim
ISBN: 9780648917663
Dimension: 230mm X 152mm
Pages: 102