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

xin

心

This is how I pray.
This is how I hold my loved ones lightly.
How like a tiny boat, my cupped hands,
how, like three dancing dots,
my children spill their laughter.

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

SELECTED POEMS: “colours” >