Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore

Series Editor Frank Stewart.
Guest Editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain.

Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore collects the essays, fiction, and poetry of two dozen contemporary writers from Singapore, a nation uniquely multicultural. Their works range in style from meditative essays to lyric poetry to magical realist fiction.

Contributors include Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Kim Cheng Boey, Shelly Bryant, Grace Chua, Dan Ying, Jeffrey Greene, Philip Jeyaretnam, Amanda Lee Koe, Jee Leong Koh, Desmond Kon, Khoo Seok Wan, Karen Kwek, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Julia C. Lin, Nicholas Liu, Jason Erik Lundberg, Christopher Mooney-Singh, Eleanor Neo, Ng Yi-Sheng, O Thiam Chin, Wena Poon, Alfian Sa’at, Jeremy Tiang, Toh Hsien Min, Wang Xinlei, Cyril Wong, Wong Yoon Wah, and Jerrold Yam. Guest editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, editor, and translator in English, French, and Chinese.

Peranakan houses on Everton Road.
Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore.

240 pp., summer 2014 (26:1), $20
ISBN 978-0-8248-4797-5
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