When the Barbarians Arrive

When the Barbarians Arrive - Paperback

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When the Barbarians Arrive

When the Barbarians Arrive - Paperback

$14.96
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by Alvin Pang (Author)

When the Barbarians Arrive comprises poems from three published collections - Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003) and What Gives Us Our Names (2011) - together with a body of new and uncollected poems by one of Singapore's most exciting and visible poets of the post-1965 generation.

Ranging from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing and audacious medleys, here are poems wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive, generous and playful, yet full of paradox; poems that pry, celebrate and unsettle.

This is Alvin Pang's first full-length UK publication.

Pang's] poetry adds a rich and complex presence to the critical mass of urban literature now fully emergent from Singapore. His poems, at once recognizably national and international in reach, offer a fresh edgy energy to this tradition.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize 1992

Number of Pages: 72
Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 05, 2012

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