My Grandmother’s Body by Cyril Wong
Published January 2024
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These poems take you through the alleyways of intergenerational anxieties: the grandmother’s story fused into the grandson’s. Time, change and difference – those familiar constants – gallop through the grandmother’s memory and dreams. Singapore is woven as a background register to the poems. Sometimes personal and sometimes public, these poems seize you with their ordinariness and surprise you with their mystery.

 – Tijan M. Sallah

These poems are incantations in the ghostly, sensual voice of Wong’s beloved grandmother. Ranging in tone from bawdy to philosophical, from tender to hard-edged, the poet transports us into a liminal zone where a woman’s enduring presence speaks with equal parts authority and sagacity.

– Lydia Kwa

Cyril Wong is a poet and fictionist in Singapore. His books include Infinity Diary and Beachlight, published by Seagull Books.