Yong Shu Hoong

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Yong Shu Hoong


Born
Singapore, Singapore

Yong Shu Hoong has published four books of poetry: Isaac (1997),do-while(2002), Frottage (2005), which won the 2006 Singapore Literature Prize, and From within the Marrow (2010).

His poems have been included in literary journals like Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), as well as anthologies likeLanguage for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). His short story, ‘The Handover’, was featured in the National Library Board’s reading initiative, Read! Singapore, in 2012.

He has been invited to read at literary festivals and events in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, England, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and the United States. From August 2013 to F
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Average rating: 3.53 · 386 ratings · 57 reviews · 24 distinct worksSimilar authors
Balik Kampung

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3.62 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Right of the Soil

3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Here Now There After

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The Viewing Party

2.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013
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Frottage

3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Passages: Stories of Unspok...

2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013
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From within the Marrow

2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010
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Isaac: Poems

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Dowhile

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Anatomy of A Wave

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“Pages burnt, memories buried, I wake
or think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?”
Yong Shu Hoong, lost bodies: poems between portugal and home



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