The Singer and Other Poems
**Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**
In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle age – places and times rendered in vivid, sensory detail – to give a haunting exploration of memory and the emigrant experience: departures and arrivals; family and home; exile, longing and loss.
‘When I was younger, poetry carried me posthaste, high on the fuel of experience and freshness of thought. Now I move in slow time, listen to the poem as I carry it, and let memory tell me where to go.’ — Kim Cheng Boey
‘In this work of a mature artist, Kim Cheng Boey’s characteristic style – literary, allusive, with a flâneur’s sensibility – is on full display.’ — Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Kim Cheng Boey emigrated to Australia from Singapore in 1997. His poems have featured in the literature syllabus of the GCE A Level, the HSC and the International Baccalaureate. Besides poetry, he has published a travel memoir, Between Stations, and Gull Between Heaven and Earth, a historical novel about the Tang poet Du Fu.
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