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Change Alley single work   poetry   "The world before, and you don't want it to end."
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Change Alley
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  • From the collection 'To Markets'

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon After the Fire : New and Selected Poems Kim Cheng Boey , Ng Kwan Cheng (editor), Singapore : Firstfruits , 2006 Z1832806 2006 selected work poetry The poems in After The Fire explore the themes of migration and settlement, tracking how the Chinese migrant negotiates issues of home and identity, and the liminal spaces between past and future, between the country of birth and the adopted country. They offer insights into the cultural, linguistic and literary adjustments the migrant has to make, revealing an evolving sense of self and place. They also uncover narratives linking Australia and Singapore, and provide new mappings of being simultaneously Asian and Australian. [From Trove record] Singapore : Firstfruits , 2006 pg. 108-109
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 70 no. 2 Autumn 2011 Z1785427 2011 periodical issue 2011 pg. 41
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 6447274 2012 selected work poetry

    'In poems that shuttle between Singapore and Australia, award-winning poet Boey Kim Cheng seeks to establish a new sense of self and home on the shifting ground between memory and imagination. A noodle-maker in Melbourne triggers connective threads to the poet’s birthplace. A train crossing over the Johor-Singapore Causeway evokes the dislocating experience of interstitial existence. After six long years, one of Singapore’s greatest modern voices returns with a work of profound insight and erudition.'(Source: Goodreads website)

         Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012     pg. 8
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