Angeline Yap (b. 1959)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Helplessness

• tea

• It Shouldn’t Be Allowed

• Merbak

• xin

• colours

• Forgetting, 1976

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

6. TRACK CHANGES: “COMMUNION”

SELECTED POEMS

colours

i paint my words in watercolour;
the blues of my brush spread the sighing of wind;
the mound of my palm smudges whispers of ash
into casurina leaves—charcoals cello,
and oboes shadow root and tree bark;
the green of my song
is a wash of sea-waves hushing into sand

by Angeline Yap
from Closing my Eyes to Listen (2011)

SELECTED POEMS: “Forgetting, 1976” >