the space between branches
by Low Kian Seh
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Year Published: Oct 2026 Pages: 100pp Language: English Retail Price: SGD24 (Singapore) Dimensions: 190mm x 130mm ISBN: 978-981-94-6777-8 (Paperback) Buyer Request: Final PDF Available Publisher/Imprint: Rosetta Cultures Rights Available: World Suggested Categorisation: Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature |
About the Book
At its heart, this collection of confessional poems is about family and the familiar, as well as reality and relationships. Explored through the poet’s introspection of his life, each poem documents his experiences from childhood through to adulthood, extracting common ground. The poems explore universal themes of love, pain, grief and loss, centred in a Singaporean context, with familiar Asian parental influences. The book’s sequence loosely follows the order of what appears to be a family tree, and through the interlinkage of lives, the poet as a person is the product of the intertwining lives. Here, the space between branches delves into the poet’s arborescent linkages and interactions with the people in his life and circumstances.
About the Author
Low Kian Seh has a chemical engineering degree but is an artist to a larger degree. He is a chemistry teacher by occupation but has poetry as preoccupation. His mind is a strange blend of science, math, programming logic, poetry and art. He always makes time to write, despite being a busy civil servant and father-of-three.
His works had been published in SingPoWriMo anthologies, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, A Luxury We Must Afford, Twin Cities, Anima Methodi, Contour, To Let the Light In, and many other anthologies, aside from issues of Voice & Verse poetry magazine as well as zines and online publications such as The Atelier of Healing. He also has poems published in journals such as Asian Cha and Eunoia Review. He won first prize in Singapore’s National Poetry Competition 2019, but he is better known for his twin cinema poem, Singaporean Son, that went viral, twice. He was shortlisted for Sing Lit Station’s Manuscript Bootcamp 2021. the space between branches is his debut collection.