Commonwealth (eBook)

Theophilus Kwek (Autor)

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2025
104 Seiten
Carcanet Poetry (Verlag)
978-1-80017-484-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A neighbourhood containing Singapore's oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire: the word 'Commonwealth' uncovers rich seams of history, replete with conquests, tragedies and once-potent visions of the future. Commonwealth takes as its starting-point the massive Bukit Ho Swee fires of the 196os – an event as deeply seared into the history of Kwek's family as the nation's own – and traces the dislocations and relocations that have come before it, and in its wake.
Kwek's earlier poetry collections dealt with questions of personal rootedness and larger-scale displacement; still formally adept, Commonwealth is a new departure, drawing on a wide array of documentary and oral history sources to address upheavals of individual and collective lives within one of the world's most densely populated cities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Decolonisation • Displacement • History • Poet • Poetry • Second Collection • Singapore
• ISBN-10: 1-80017-484-5 / 1800174845
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80017-484-9 / 9781800174849