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Published April 11, 2021, 12:12 AM
Mr. Icban never really noticed me, until I wrote a poem.
I attended the 10-day Singapore Writers Festival and brought home with me this burning desire to write in verse. I used to write poetry as a kid, but I outgrew it. While working for glossy magazines, I started writing poetry again to accompany the fashion editorials or travel photographs when, instead of facts, what I would like to convey was a mood or an atmosphere but moving to the newspaper, I had this mistaken notion that there was no room for poetry in the news, even in the lifestyle beat.
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In this week’s edition of Book Box, we look at new poetry, including long-awaited collections by Singapore Writers Festival directors past and present, as well as a fresh biography of Singapore’s unofficial poet laureate Edwin Thumboo
Yeow Kai Chai’s new collection One To The Dark Tower Comes is a journey through grief and self-discovery, with many of the poems written in the months before his father died in 2008.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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It is Yeow Kai Chai s first collection in 15 years.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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