rib/cage: poems

rib/cage: poemsIf Singapore poetry is to reflect our actual lives, not just our aspirational narratives, then rib cage is a luminous benchmark. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Pounding beneath rib cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through the suffocating grip of silence and constraint. These are words carved into verse as sharp as bonevoiced into the stillness of night. Within the pages of our first ALLTHETIME folio lies

global monopoly position

Scott Chung

Activists who are passionately committed to defending the special qualities of a home they love continue to fight against Beijing’s crafty efforts to bring the city into its fold and erase its recent past

the French countryside transforms into a dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals

as the poet Marilyn Hacker has said

Nanako meets an eclectic range of strangers

Yellowish and foxing

who catalyzed the environmental movement

Yet through the dizzying flights of sense and form

an opportunity for connection

Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the Company – just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today's politics

community leaders