rib/cage: poemsIf Singapore poetry is to reflect our actual lives, not just our aspirational narratives, then rib cage is a luminous benchmark. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Pounding beneath rib cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through the suffocating grip of silence and constraint. These are words carved into verse as sharp as bonevoiced into the stillness of night. Within the pages of our first ALLTHETIME folio lies

in the public speeches he gave throughout his extraordinary life

George Eliot

Nasi: When Rice Grains Cry tells the stories of 12 quintessentially Malay rice dishes

Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became

Noorin Khamisani

the eleventh-century Karima al-Marwaziyya

to be touched by them

and resourcefulness

and celebrates art’s crucial place in our collective culture

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point

cinta dan kesakitan

and Earth Songs