Books I’ve Written
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Lion City, Epigram Books, 2018
Singapore Book Awards, Best Literary Work, 2019; Singapore Literature Prize, English Fiction, 2020
My very first collection of speculative fiction!
last boy, firstfruits, 2006
Singapore Literature Prize, English, 2008
My first book of poetry, which I’m proud to say was unabashedly queer.
SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century, Oogachaga, 2006; expanded edition by Math Paper Press
This is a non-fiction work: a collection of coming-out stories—the very first in Asia to feature real names and real faces. I got commissioned to do it by the counselling group Oogachaga. It was on the best-seller lists for a while!
Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience, Math Paper Press, 2016
A collection of my spoken word pieces from 1999 to 2016. Once again, very queer and political.
A Book of Hims, Math Paper Press, 2017
Poems about gay love and masculinity, from a more mature point in my life.
Black Waters, Pink Sands, Math Paper Press, 2020
The annotated scripts of the two historical lecture performances I created in 2019: Ayer Hitam: a Black History of Singapore and Desert Blooms: the Dawn of Queer Singapore Theatre.
Eating Air, firstfruits, 2008
A novelisation of an awesome 1999 motorcycle gangster film by Kelvin Tong and Jasmine Ng. Commissioned by the National Library.