Description
Singapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh’s first book to be published in Great Britain is rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His language is colloquial, musical, aware of the infusion of various traditions and histories. ‘You go where? / I’m going from the latterly to the litany, from writs to rites.’ The poems share many of the harsh and enriching circumstances that shape the imagination of a postcolonial queer writer. Taking leaves from other poets — Emilia Lanyer, Eavan Boland, Xunka’ Utz’utz’ Ni’, Lee Tzu Pheng — Koh creates a text that is distinctively his own.
The Sea Migrations 
Steep Tea 
Hansel and Gretel 
Counting Backwards 
A Quarter of an Hour 
The Handle of the Door 
And You, Helen 
She Inserts the Key 
Over the Moon 
A Marriage 
Selected Poetry 
The Tamarit Poems 
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Spiritlands 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Strong in the Rain 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
States of Happiness 
Ten Poems by Walter de la Mare 
Greetings from Grandpa