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Boey Kim Cheng


Born
in Singapore, Singapore
June 10, 1965

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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 Contem
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Average rating: 3.85 · 625 ratings · 85 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Between Stations

4.25 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Clear Brightness

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Another Place

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After The Fire

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Gull Between Heaven and Earth

3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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The Singer and Other Poems

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asi...

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Somewhere-Bound

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Days of No Name

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“You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating them
like sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing ways
return might be possible against these homesick inventions,
trace the traveller's alien steps across borders, and in between
discover how transit has a way of lasting, the way these Chinatowns
grew out of not knowing whether to return or to stay, and then became home.”
Boey Kim Cheng, Clear Brightness

“No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving.”
Boey Kim Cheng, Clear Brightness



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