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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Clear Brightness
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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", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
La Mian in Melbournei"On Little Bourke Street it's the bewitching hour", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
Dinky's House of Russian Goods, Singaporei"Dinky the nostalgia trader, trafficker", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
Glebei"It's Saturday and the stubbled schoolyard is packed", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 7)
Change Alleyi"The world before, and you don't want it to end.", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 8)
Kuala Lumpuri"Fresh out of the army, the future a dazle,", Kim Cheng Boey , single work (p. 8)
Calcuttai"First light gilding the awakening stalls", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 9)
Varanasii"Weaving through narrow lanes of loitering locals", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 9)
Xiani"The Gate of Western Peace, where the barbarians", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 10)
Kashgari"Here the Middle Kingdom peters out in shifting sands", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 10)
Isfahani"All distant routes led here in the days of the Shahs,", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 11)
Istanbuli"Our passage through time, through the bazaar's", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 11)
Cairoi"Over and over we trace memory's story", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 12)
Jerusaleumi"No mad prophet to overturn the tables", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 12)
Tangiers, Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 13)
Fezi"Trying to find the heart of the medina, you wander", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 13)
Marrakeshi"Each maret yielding different tokens, emblems", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 14)
Madridi"Rambling avenue of list and discarded things,", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 14)
Poste Restantei"In Memory's poste restante our unread mail", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 15)
Ahead My Father Movesi"Ahead my father moves, his limp gait", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 16-17)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Review : Clear Brightness - Internal Monologues Josh Dubrau , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 236-240)

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry ; Internal Monologues (A Romance) Danijela Kambaskovic , 2013 selected work poetry
Kate Middleton Reviews Kim Cheng Boey Kate Middleton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
Untitled Eddie Tay , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 7 no. 1 2013; (p. 171-173)

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
Christopher Pollnitz Reviews Clear Brightness by Kim Cheng Boey Christopher Pollnitz , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
Christopher Pollnitz Reviews Clear Brightness by Kim Cheng Boey Christopher Pollnitz , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 14 2013;

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
Kate Middleton Reviews Kim Cheng Boey Kate Middleton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
Review : Clear Brightness - Internal Monologues Josh Dubrau , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 236-240)

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry ; Internal Monologues (A Romance) Danijela Kambaskovic , 2013 selected work poetry
Untitled Eddie Tay , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 7 no. 1 2013; (p. 171-173)

— Review of Clear Brightness Kim Cheng Boey , 2012 selected work poetry
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