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B-Sides and Backslides: 1986 - 2018
Nine years after his last volume of poetry, Felix Cheong makes a comeback - this time, a collection of poetic outtakes and more recent writings.
B-Sides and Backslides: 1986 - 2018 puts together an unrelenting and honest portrait of the poet as a young man - an undergrad hung up on T.S. Eliot - through the ups and downers of career and marriage, to middle age. It is at once an insightful mapping of his craft over 30 years and a typography of turns and returns of themes and images.
Collected here is the full range of Felix's oeuvre, from odes to love to social observations, from religious musings to political satire.
Complete with liner (linear) notes documenting the periods between his four books, this anthology will offer you a rare look at a poet's growth and creative process from the inside out.
B-Sides and Backslides: 1986 - 2018 puts together an unrelenting and honest portrait of the poet as a young man - an undergrad hung up on T.S. Eliot - through the ups and downers of career and marriage, to middle age. It is at once an insightful mapping of his craft over 30 years and a typography of turns and returns of themes and images.
Collected here is the full range of Felix's oeuvre, from odes to love to social observations, from religious musings to political satire.
Complete with liner (linear) notes documenting the periods between his four books, this anthology will offer you a rare look at a poet's growth and creative process from the inside out.
- GenresPoetry
93 pages, Paperback
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December 15, 2020
B-sides are the flip sides of music albums. But that doesn’t mean the poems in this collection are flippant. In fact, Math Paper Press unearthed gems from the oeuvre of a veteran in Singapore literature after a “backslide”.
A poet is always on the journey to seek truths and Felix Cheong is no different. This book captures his acute self-reflections, spanning from social observations to political satire.
The liner notes peek into the author’s personal life, offering an intimate look of a poet’s growth over time. Long story (or should I say “stanza”) short, B-sides and Backslides 1986 - 2018 is a quintessential read for every #SingLit reader.
A poet is always on the journey to seek truths and Felix Cheong is no different. This book captures his acute self-reflections, spanning from social observations to political satire.
The liner notes peek into the author’s personal life, offering an intimate look of a poet’s growth over time. Long story (or should I say “stanza”) short, B-sides and Backslides 1986 - 2018 is a quintessential read for every #SingLit reader.
May 26, 2020
It’s pretty readable but not too nuanced.
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