Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to the editors of the following publications, where several of these poems were previously featured: Adroit, Ambit, Antiphon, Berfrois, Cha, The Compass, Eastlit, Honest Ulsterman, Hunger Mountain, Hyphen, The Interpreter’s House, The Irish Examiner, The Learned Pig, The London Magazine, Mekong Review, The Missing Slate, Oxford Review of Books, Oxonian Review, POEM, PN Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Wildness.

‘Monologue for Noh Masks’ was commissioned by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, while ‘gunung’ and ‘My Love’ were commissioned by Poetry Festival Singapore. Some of the poems have also appeared in chapbooks or anthologies by Chameleon Press, Hong Kong; Landmark Books and Math Paper Press, Singapore; as well as Carcanet Press and Smith | Doorstop, UK.

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