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    When the Barbarians Arrive

    By Alvin Pang

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    When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang's five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at once recognisably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edge and energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore.

    Alvin Pang was born in Singapore in 1972. A Fellow of Iowa University's International Writing program, his poetry has been translated into more than fifteen languages, and he has appeared at major festivals and in anthologies worldwide. He has edited the anthologies No Other City (2000); Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (2009). Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore's National Arts Council, and was received the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArc Publications
    Release dateJun 26, 2012
    ISBN9781908376336
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    Alvin Pang

    Alvin Pang (冯啟明) is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist and translator. He was Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature in 2005 and received the Singapore Youth Award for Arts and Culture in 2007, and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008. His poems have been translated into over fifteen languages, and he has appeared in major festivals and publications worldwide. He is among only a handful of poets from Singapore to be listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English (2nd Edition, 2013). His books include City of Rain (2003), Other Things and Other Poems (Croatia, 2012) and When the Barbarians Arrive, published in the UK in 2012 by Arc. Most recently, he published a collection of selected and new works, What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017). His collection of short prose, What Gives Us Our Names (2011), has sold more than 10,000 copies to date. A Fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2002), he is a Board Member of the International Poetry Studies Institute, based in the University of Canberra. He is also a founding director of The Literary Centre – a non-profit initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary capacity, multilingual communication, and positive social change.

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