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.
The Claims Office 
In Reality 
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds 
The Lover's Pinch 
And You, Helen 
Gold from the Stone 
States of Happiness 
This Is Yarrow 
Signs Like This 
Poems to Elsi 
The Sun and Her Flowers 
Soemps 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
The Moon Before Morning 
Dog Poems 
Ten Poems on the Telephone 
The Silvering