Eddie Tay (b. 1974)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• an excerpt from "remnants"

• an excerpt from "Poems After Li Shang-Yin (813–858)

• an excerpt from “The Mental Life of Cities”

• excerpts from Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes

• kirato’s koi

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SELECTED POEMS

kirato’s koi

A fallen petal
guided by his haunting flute
drifts upon this pond.

I stand hypnotised
by persuasive percussion
drizzling against skin.

A carp emerges
from a forestry of sounds;
and poetry is mute.

by Eddie Tay
from ^ Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond (2010)

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