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 always happy to welcome new poets to our archive. Adding to our earlier crop of profiles for Anita Patel, Esther Vincent Xueming, Euginia Tan and Miriam Wei Wei Lo, we have: Hamid Roslan, and the late Justin Chin.
Browse our multimedia content on our YouTube channel.
