After that Purpose, went abroad in search of her beloved Passion, who has been missing for awhile now. Back then he was pursuing Purpose, and they did seem a perfect couple to those who knew them both. Years ago, when we were together in college, he was the sort everyone wanted to have around all the time.

'Success has always been good at numbers and appearances. Having heard reviews from friends, I decided to give this book - if it can be called a book - a shot, and boy was I disappointed. Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore’s National Arts Council, and was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007. Among other public engagements, he is on the board of the International Poetry Studies Institute, and the editor-in-chief of an internationally circulated public policy journal. Listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English (2nd Edition), Pang is a founding director of The Literary Centre – a non-profit initiative promoting interdisciplinary capacity, multilingual communication, and positive social change. His latest book is WHAT HAPPENED: Poems 1997-2017. His most recent volumes of poetry, OTHER THINGS AND OTHER POEMS (Brutal:Croatia), Teorija strun (JKSD:Slovenia) and WHEN THE BARBARIANS ARRIVE (Arc Publications,UK), were published in 2012.

The anthologies he has curated include No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000) Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (co-edited with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (Autumn Hill: USA, 2009). Writing primarily in English, his poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages, and he has appeared in major festivals and anthologies worldwide.Ī Fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2002), his publications include Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003), What Gives Us Our Names (2011). Alvin PANG is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and translator.

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