poetry.sg is an educational / critical resource on all things Singaporean poetry, conceptualised and managed by a dedicated team of staffers and volunteers at Sing Lit Station. Launched in 2015 with support from the National Arts Council, poetry.sg is an online database of local poets that comes with an accompanying catalogue of biographies, samples of selected poetry, video recordings and critical essays written by academics and other local writers alike.
In this essay, writer, researcher and advocate Ada Cheong traces this dreaming across the emergence of “migrant poetry” in 2004, its rise in 2014–2017, its peak in 2018–2021, and seeming decline in the last few years. In doing so, she explores two key questions: What is “migrant” poetry? And what does migrant poetry do?
We’re proud to finally mark a new milestone on our archive: our very first profile of a Tamil-language poet, by way of Singai Mukilan.
Also, eagle-eyed visitors to our archive might have noticed a slight restructuring to some of our poets’ profiles… There’s a 1000-page limit on our web provider, which has forced us to subsume (in reverse-alphabetical order) our poets’ Selected Publications page to appear under their Biographies. We’ve also been collating poems from the same book / publication to appear in a single page as well. We thank everyone for their patience on all fronts.
Browse our multimedia content on our YouTube channel.
