Description
Singapore in the late seventies is first dreamt, then built: a city that envelopes an entire island. Thousands have begun their lives in highrise housing, skyscrapers ascend to a sky that recedes; an entire shoreline is buried as the East Coast is reclaimed. Nature withdraws: the neighbourhood of Katong forgets the sea as marine mollusks are buried, and sea-turtles depart. A teacher in her thirties becomes a writer, penning fiction and poetry that calls forth trees and flowers by name, and captures the feminine consciousness of an ascendent middle-class. In her work, the character of the New Woman navigates pregnancy and prospects in an increasingly regulated and amnesiac society.
Waves Rising brings together, for the first time, the entirety of Ho Poh Fun’s published writing, including the full text of Katong and Other Poems, and her accomplished fiction that first appeared in Singa. A teacher of many, this volume also signals her arrival as a writer in the form of creative and critical responses from fellow poets, colleagues, students and new readers discovering Ho for the first time.
About the Editor
Dr Ann Ang is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education. A published writer of poetry, fiction and literary criticism, Ann is the author of Bang My Car (2012), a Singlish-English collection of short stories and the poetry collection Burning Walls for Paper Spirits (2021). She is also the editor of several anthologies including Poetry Moves (2020), Food Republic (2020) and Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing (2023).
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