Flung
by Cyril Wong
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Year Published: Dec 2025 Pages: 108pp Language: English Retail Price: SGD18 (Singapore) Dimensions: 190mm x 130mm ISBN: 978-981-18-8274-6 (Paperback) Buyer Request: Final PDF Available Publisher/Imprint: Rosetta Cultures Rights Available: World Suggested Categorisation: Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature |
About Flung
Here is a deepening inquiry into the self in the realm of love; a meditation on the ecstasy of the queer self that transcends conventional binaries. Between confessions, dreams and alternative lives, an underlying fear for the partner suffering from that inability to surrender motivates these pages. Fear is a burden that unravels and transforms into opportunities for edification, and therefore more and more love. Between the lover and the mystic self, this poem replays, exists, relents.
About Cyril Wong
Cyril Wong is a poet whose works “embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds” (TIME magazine, 28 Nov. 2007). His books include Beachlight (Seagull Books, 2023) and This Side of Heaven (Epigram Books, 2020). A two-time recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize (2006 and 2016) and the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature (2005), he completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His work was featured in Poems on the Underground in London (2022). His writings have appeared in journals like Poetry International, Poetry New Zealand, Ambit, Atlanta Review, as well as in anthologies by W. W. Norton and Everyman’s Library.