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'In poems that shuttle between Singapore and Australia, award-winning poet Boey Kim Cheng seeks to establish a new sense of self and home on the shifting ground between memory and imagination. A noodle-maker in Melbourne triggers connective threads to the poet’s birthplace. A train crossing over the Johor-Singapore Causeway evokes the dislocating experience of interstitial existence. After six long years, one of Singapore’s greatest modern voices returns with a work of profound insight and erudition.'(Source: Goodreads website)
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Contents
* Contents derived from the
Glebe,
Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area,
Sydney Inner West,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann
, 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Clear Brightnessi"The house and yard dressed in a skin of ash", single work poetry (p. 1-2)
- La Mian in Melbournei"On Little Bourke Street it's the bewitching hour", single work poetry (p. 3-4)
- Dinky's House of Russian Goods, Singaporei"Dinky the nostalgia trader, trafficker", single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- Glebei"It's Saturday and the stubbled schoolyard is packed", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Change Alleyi"The world before, and you don't want it to end.", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Kuala Lumpuri"Fresh out of the army, the future a dazle,", single work (p. 8)
- Calcuttai"First light gilding the awakening stalls", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Varanasii"Weaving through narrow lanes of loitering locals", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Xiani"The Gate of Western Peace, where the barbarians", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Kashgari"Here the Middle Kingdom peters out in shifting sands", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Isfahani"All distant routes led here in the days of the Shahs,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Istanbuli"Our passage through time, through the bazaar's", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Cairoi"Over and over we trace memory's story", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Jerusaleumi"No mad prophet to overturn the tables", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Tangiers, single work poetry (p. 13)
- Fezi"Trying to find the heart of the medina, you wander", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Marrakeshi"Each maret yielding different tokens, emblems", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Madridi"Rambling avenue of list and discarded things,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Poste Restantei"In Memory's poste restante our unread mail", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Ahead My Father Movesi"Ahead my father moves, his limp gait", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Review : Clear Brightness - Internal Monologues
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 236-240)
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry ; Internal Monologues (A Romance) 2013 selected work poetry -
Kate Middleton Reviews Kim Cheng Boey
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 7 no. 1 2013; (p. 171-173)
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry -
Christopher Pollnitz Reviews Clear Brightness by Kim Cheng Boey
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry
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Christopher Pollnitz Reviews Clear Brightness by Kim Cheng Boey
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry -
Kate Middleton Reviews Kim Cheng Boey
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry -
Review : Clear Brightness - Internal Monologues
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 236-240)
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry ; Internal Monologues (A Romance) 2013 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 7 no. 1 2013; (p. 171-173)
— Review of Clear Brightness 2012 selected work poetry
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