Reading poetry sometimes feels like battling a giant squid: overwhelming, disorienting, and more than a little slippery. Poems can be elusive beings, evading comprehension and dissection. When you take an already chimeric beast and give it appendages of fantasy, science fiction, horror, or mythology well, then it becomes another monster entirely.
Even just a few years ago, I would steer clear of poetry tables at book festivals, feeling that it was too frustrating of an artform to fully grasp. But now writing and reading poetry is a weekly pleasure for me, and I recently read the
2021 Rhysling Anthology which specifically celebrates speculative poetry from cover to cover.
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THE Good Class Bungalow (GCB) market is on a roll.
List Sotheby s International Realty s analysis of URA Realis caveats data shows that year to date (with the latest transaction dated June 18), there have been 50 deals in GCB Areas totalling nearly S$1.4 billion. This is higher than the total for the whole of last year - 46 deals amounting to S$1.1 billion.
The action is expected to continue, with attractive new offerings on the market.
Among them is a bungalow in Cluny Hill with a freehold land area of 18,010 sq ft. Word in the market is that the pricing expectation is about S$3,200-3,400 per square foot (psf) on land area, which would translate to around S$57.6 million to S$61.2 million.
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