Places : an anthology of travel writing

by Boey Kim Cheng (Mentor), Anngee Neo (Mentor)

Places: An Anthology of Travel Writing explores the remarkable memories we make in locations far-flung and familiar, with strangers and kindred spirits alike. In these vivid essays and images, seventeen Singaporeans show how travelling into the distance can sometimes bring us closer to home.

This book is the product of an interdisciplinary mentorship project (October to December 2017) under the tutelage of a Singapore-born poet, Boey Kim Cheng, and Singaporean illustrator, Anngee Neo.

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Boey Kim Cheng is a multi-award winning Singapore-born poet, and a 1996 recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award. He emigrated to Australia in 1997, but returned in 2013 as one of Nanyang Technological University's writers-in-residence; he is currently Associate Professor in the NTU Division of English. He has published five collections of poetry, including Clear Brightness, which was selected by The Straits Times as one of the Best Books of 2012. His writing is frequently studied in tertiary and university institutions in Singapore and abroad.

Boey co-founded Mascara Literary Review in 2007, the first Australian literary journal to promote Asian Australian writing, and in 2013 co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Contemporary Asian Australian Poets. In 2017, Epigram Books reissued his celebrated travel memoir Between Stations, and released his first novel, Gull Between Heaven and Earth, on the life of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu.

Reviews

[Yu Fang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mix of writing talents. I definitely prefer some over others. Ah Toy was heartwarming, didn’t really understand the giant and the bird, but ok, great that you’re spontaneous I guess.