Description
Theophilus Kwek’s first UK collection is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that become history. The poems set out from formative moments in the poet’s memory, to pivotal moments in the colonial past of Southeast Asia, and finally the political upheavals of the present. Hospitality, precarity, migration – these are some of the themes that recur as the poet makes his own journey from Singapore to Europe and back again.
Moving House moves on a big time and space map, from Icelandic tales to the Malayan Emergency, and more contemporary dramas. From the perspective of a Chinese Singaporean shaped by the collective traditions and histories described in this book, writing in Britain, the poems model a sense of openness on the space of the page.







Logue's ABC
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
Spiritlands
The Tamarit Poems
We Are Together
Milk and Honey
Somewhere Else Entirely
Strong in the Rain
Ten Pre-Raphaelite Poems
The Black Place
The Moon Before Morning
New and Selected Poems. Volume One